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... mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than anything on 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 ...
... mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than anything on 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 ...
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... mind . For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something , than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ...
... mind . For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something , than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ...
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... mind . And to say truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established ...
... mind . And to say truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established ...
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... mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of men and nature than upon themselves . And then whatever any art fails to attain , they ever ...
... mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of men and nature than upon themselves . And then whatever any art fails to attain , they ever ...
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... mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own private and inward hesitations and ... minds . I have not sought ( I say ) nor do I seek either to force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to ...
... mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own private and inward hesitations and ... minds . I have not sought ( I say ) nor do I seek either to force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to ...
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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.