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... authority to act ; the executors named in the will refusing or delaying to assume their office , and letters of administration being granted on the 13th of July , 1627 , to Sir Robert Rich and Mr. Thomas Meautys , two of the creditors ...
... authority to act ; the executors named in the will refusing or delaying to assume their office , and letters of administration being granted on the 13th of July , 1627 , to Sir Robert Rich and Mr. Thomas Meautys , two of the creditors ...
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... authority ac- cordingly in this matter was of necessity set aside ; and a number of hypotheses were proposed in order to explain the newly discovered facts . Of these speculations an interesting account is given in the twenty - eighth ...
... authority ac- cordingly in this matter was of necessity set aside ; and a number of hypotheses were proposed in order to explain the newly discovered facts . Of these speculations an interesting account is given in the twenty - eighth ...
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... authority ; but in the Novum Organum he ascribes it to Acosta and others . But it is very remarkable that Acosta does not say what Bacon makes him say , namely that the times of high water are the same on the coast of Florida and that ...
... authority ; but in the Novum Organum he ascribes it to Acosta and others . But it is very remarkable that Acosta does not say what Bacon makes him say , namely that the times of high water are the same on the coast of Florida and that ...
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... authority of Plato , or rather by that of one of the in- terlocutors in the Symposium , who affirms that no one , whether poet or not , has spoken of the parents of Eros ; but that Hesiod in the order of his theogony places Gaia and ...
... authority of Plato , or rather by that of one of the in- terlocutors in the Symposium , who affirms that no one , whether poet or not , has spoken of the parents of Eros ; but that Hesiod in the order of his theogony places Gaia and ...
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... authority of Proclus . egg Phanes , in the common form of the Orphic theogony , comes out of the egg into which Chaos had formed itself . But I am not aware that any one except Aristophanes makes Night lay the from which Eros afterwards ...
... authority of Proclus . egg Phanes , in the common form of the Orphic theogony , comes out of the egg into which Chaos had formed itself . But I am not aware that any one except Aristophanes makes Night lay the from which Eros afterwards ...
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absque adeo aër aërem aëris alia aliis aliquid aliud apud aqua aquæ Aristotle atque autem Bacon calore certe circa cœli cœlo corpora corporum corpus Democritus divine doth drams ejus enim eorum esset etiam fere fieri flamma fluxus fortasse globi hæc hath homines hominum hujusmodi humana illa illis illud inquisitio instar inter ipsa ipsis ista Itaque knowledge learning licet magis materiæ mind minus modo modum motum motus multo naturæ natural philosophy naturalis nature Neque enim nihil nisi nobis nostra ætate Novum Organum omnia omnino omnis opinion philosophy posse possit potest primo prorsus quæ quædam qualia quam quibus quid quin quis quod rebus rerum rursus saith scientia scilicet secundum sensu sibi sint sive sonum sunt tamen tanquam tantum Telesius temporis terræ terram things tion translation unto veluti vero Verum videtur whereof
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Página 316 - Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages : so that, if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which' carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant...
Página 342 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 293 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Página 393 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; .nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Página 479 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
Página 292 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Página 284 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 296 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Página 145 - But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity of matter, but only for God's first creature, which was light; to have light, I say, of the growth of all parts of the world.
Página 163 - Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former.