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... earth , or at least than anything that is of the earth , might by any means be restored to its per- fect and original condition , or if that may not be , yet reduced to a better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the ...
... earth , or at least than anything that is of the earth , might by any means be restored to its per- fect and original condition , or if that may not be , yet reduced to a better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the ...
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... earth , but seals and shuts up the face of heaven . My next , that in flying from this evil they fall not into the opposite error , which they will surely do if they think that the inquisition of nature is in any part interdicted or ...
... earth , but seals and shuts up the face of heaven . My next , that in flying from this evil they fall not into the opposite error , which they will surely do if they think that the inquisition of nature is in any part interdicted or ...
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... earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set ...
... earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set ...
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... earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is that of actions , as to generate , to corrupt , to alter ; the most faulty is of qualities ( except such as are the imme- diate objects of the sense ) as heavy , light , rare , dense , and the like ...
... earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is that of actions , as to generate , to corrupt , to alter ; the most faulty is of qualities ( except such as are the imme- diate objects of the sense ) as heavy , light , rare , dense , and the like ...
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... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into the indifferent nature of fire , and remoulded into solids ;, have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher ...
... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into the indifferent nature of fire , and remoulded into solids ;, have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher ...
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Página 252 - For man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired ; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences.
Página 410 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
Página 104 - But for my part I do not trouble myself with any such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary, is to try whether I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man.
Página 367 - For to say that the hairs of the eyelids are for a quickset and fence about the sight; or that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold; or that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
Página 60 - ... extreme admiration of antiquity, others to an extreme love and appetite for novelty; but few so duly tempered that they can hold the mean, neither carping at what has been well laid down by the ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy: since these affectations of antiquity and novelty are the...
Página 60 - But the Idols of the Market-place arc the most troublesome of all : idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words ; but it is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Página 58 - But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dulness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses ; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important.
Página 388 - The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they were judged by recovery or death.
Página 58 - Such then are the idols which I call Idols of the Tribe; and which take their rise either from the homogeneity of the substance of the human spirit, or from its preoccupation, or from its narrowness, or from its restless motion, or from an infusion of the affections, or from the incompetency of the senses, or from the mode of impression.