The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts , but to express their own ; and in Bacon's hands it became an organ of expression extremely powerful and sensitive , full of felici- ties and delicate effects , depending upon its own peculiar ...
... Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts , but to express their own ; and in Bacon's hands it became an organ of expression extremely powerful and sensitive , full of felici- ties and delicate effects , depending upon its own peculiar ...
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... Cicero and subsequent ages , the works of the old philosophers still remained . But in the times which followed , when on the inundation of barbarians into the Roman empire human learning had suffered ship- wreck , then the systems of ...
... Cicero and subsequent ages , the works of the old philosophers still remained . But in the times which followed , when on the inundation of barbarians into the Roman empire human learning had suffered ship- wreck , then the systems of ...
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... Cicero said when , on his return from exile , he gave general thanks ; " It is hard to remember all , un- grateful to pass by any . " 2 Let us rather ( after the advice of Scripture ) look forward to that part of the race which is still ...
... Cicero said when , on his return from exile , he gave general thanks ; " It is hard to remember all , un- grateful to pass by any . " 2 Let us rather ( after the advice of Scripture ) look forward to that part of the race which is still ...
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... Cicero calls " stuff " or " furniture , " that is matter and variety ) to begin with those arts ( as if one should learn to weigh or to measure or to paint the wind ) , works but this effect , that the virtue and faculty of those arts ...
... Cicero calls " stuff " or " furniture , " that is matter and variety ) to begin with those arts ( as if one should learn to weigh or to measure or to paint the wind ) , works but this effect , that the virtue and faculty of those arts ...
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... Cicero says ( having borrowed it from Demosthenes ) , " That good fame is the only possession a dead man has ; " 2 which possession I cannot but note that in our times it lies in most part waste and neglected . For Narrations and ...
... Cicero says ( having borrowed it from Demosthenes ) , " That good fame is the only possession a dead man has ; " 2 which possession I cannot but note that in our times it lies in most part waste and neglected . For Narrations and ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.