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... Works of Francis Bacon - Página 147por Francis Bacon - 1863Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Birmingham Speculative Club - 1870 - 320 páginas
...glory of the University, in experimental science, as in all other departments of human inquiry, "to lay more firmly the foundations and extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." * WM. MATHEWS, JUN. Nov. Org., Bk. I., Aph. cxvi. ESSAY III. SOME THOUGHTS ON PAUPERISM. TT^ORTY years... | |
| 1882 - 514 páginas
...loss of a little human labor." Our purpose, therefore, with Lord Bacon holds good " to try whether we cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations,...widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." Our founders have rightly placed much stress upon the study of our English Literature. "There is,"... | |
| 1888 - 928 páginas
...«1 ; Vu. Ter. (Wer»«, Ш. IS5); пет г, Ъ. L (Works, Ш. S»«). new powers or works,"1 or "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." '- Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
| 1895 - 850 páginas
...bold man try, but also to make a soberminded and wise man believe. " My purpose is to try whether 1 cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations,...widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man. For 1 am building in thehumin understanding a true model of the world, such as it is in fact, not such... | |
| 1907 - 780 páginas
...true aim of all science is "to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works,"* or "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." e Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
| Lewis Flint Anderson - 1909 - 370 páginas
...civilization. Bacon's aim was to establish the natural sciences, and through the effective pursuit of them to " lay more firmly the foundations and extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man" (NO, Aph. 116). Bacon accounts for the backwardness of the natural sciences by stating that only six... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 512 páginas
...utilitarian, ideal, thus, of the office of philosophy was its mastery of the secrets of nature "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man. " Bacon's criticism of past error was just and needful, his separation of science from religion valuable... | |
| 1910 - 1110 páginas
...aim of all science is " to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works/'1 or " to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man."' Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search there... | |
| 1910 - 1034 páginas
...aim of all science is " to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works," s or *' to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man."' Nevertheless, ¡t ¡s not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
| Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1028 páginas
...aim of all science is " to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works,"8 or " to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man."* Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search there... | |
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