Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen1Brown and Taggard, 1861 |
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... work for an editor to do , but the help he can render differs in the several cases both in nature and amount , and requires qual- ifications differing accordingly . To understand and illustrate the Philosophical viii HISTORY AND PLAN.
... work for an editor to do , but the help he can render differs in the several cases both in nature and amount , and requires qual- ifications differing accordingly . To understand and illustrate the Philosophical viii HISTORY AND PLAN.
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... work . It was con- Such was our original arrangement . cluded in the autumn of 1847 ; and Mr. Ellis , whose part was to come first , had already advanced so far that he expected to have it ready for the press with- in another half year ...
... work . It was con- Such was our original arrangement . cluded in the autumn of 1847 ; and Mr. Ellis , whose part was to come first , had already advanced so far that he expected to have it ready for the press with- in another half year ...
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... work so far imperfect , yet in all matters which lay within my compass I promised to do my best to complete the illustration and explanation of the text ; adding where I had anything to add , objecting where I had anything to object ...
... work so far imperfect , yet in all matters which lay within my compass I promised to do my best to complete the illustration and explanation of the text ; adding where I had anything to add , objecting where I had anything to object ...
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... work in hand ; and in the three volumes which follow , the reader will find the result . The things then for which in this division I am to be held responsible are - 1st . All notes and prefaces marked with my initials , and all words ...
... work in hand ; and in the three volumes which follow , the reader will find the result . The things then for which in this division I am to be held responsible are - 1st . All notes and prefaces marked with my initials , and all words ...
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... work by four or five hundred pages and the cost in proportion , it has been thought better to leave them out . In one respect , it is true , they have a value inde- pendent of the English originals . Having been made later and made ...
... work by four or five hundred pages and the cost in proportion , it has been thought better to leave them out . In one respect , it is true , they have a value inde- pendent of the English originals . Having been made later and made ...
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Página 37 - Aristotle ; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man ; in which mind he continued to his dying day.
Página 51 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces : his hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 48 - Deipnosophistarum, wherein a man might be refreshed in his mind and understanding no less than in his body. And I have known some, of no mean parts, that have professed to make use of their note-books when they have risen from his table.
Página 69 - ... density, of tenuity, of heat, of cold, and all other natures and qualities, which, like an alphabet, are not many, and of which the essences (upheld by matter) of all creatures do consist ; to inquire, I say, the true forms of these, is that part of metaphysic which we now define of.
Página 227 - Homo, naturae minister et interpres, tantum facit et intelligit, quantum de naturae ordine re vel mente observaverit ; nee amplius scit aut potest.
Página 255 - At longe subtilius serpit hoc malum in philosophiis et scientiis ; in quibus quod semel placuit reliqua (licet multo firmiora et potiora) inficit, et in ordinem redigit. Quinetiam licet abfuerit ea, quam diximus, delectatio et vanitas, is tamen humano intellectui error est proprius et perpetuus, ut magis moveatur et excitetur affirmativis, quam negativis...
Página 44 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Página 141 - I myself have seen at the least twelve copies of the Instauration, revised year by year one after another, and every year altered and amended in the frame thereof, till at last it came to that model in which it was committed to the press; as many living creatures do lick their young ones, till they bring them to their strength of limbs.
Página 335 - Quod si quis humani generis ipsius potentiam et imperium in rerum universitatem instaurare et amplificare conetur, ea proculdubio ambitio (si modo ita vocanda sit) reliquis et sanior est et augustior. Hominis autem imperium in res, in solis artibus et scientiis ponitur. Naturae enim non imperatur, nisi parendo n.
Página 85 - For that his method is impracticable cannot I think be denied, if we reflect not only that it never has produced any result, but also that the process by which scientific truths have been established cannot be so presented as even to appear to be in accordance with it.