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... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
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... fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest ...
... fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest ...
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... 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 forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to ...
... 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 forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to ...
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... falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying of contradictions and heart - burnings , that the honour and reve- rence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time ...
... falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying of contradictions and heart - burnings , that the honour and reve- rence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time ...
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... falls back upon that which is more nigh at hand ; namely , on final causes : which have relation clearly to the nature of man rather than to the nature of the universe ; and from this source have strangely defiled philosophy . But he is ...
... falls back upon that which is more nigh at hand ; namely , on final causes : which have relation clearly to the nature of man rather than to the nature of the universe ; and from this source have strangely defiled philosophy . But he is ...
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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.