The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of it : I ... earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under ... history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate ...
... history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of it : I ... earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under ... history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate ...
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... origin of sciences among spirits and genii . So that this parent stock of errors - this false philosophy - is of three ... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into ...
... origin of sciences among spirits and genii . So that this parent stock of errors - this false philosophy - is of three ... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into ...
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... earth , there is an end of this division . But if Gilbert's opinion be received , that the earth's magnetic power of ... history , when in place of certain instances I am sometimes compelled to adduce as ex- amples bare suppositions ...
... earth , there is an end of this division . But if Gilbert's opinion be received , that the earth's magnetic power of ... history , when in place of certain instances I am sometimes compelled to adduce as ex- amples bare suppositions ...
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... history worthy of credit , that there has been any comet , whether high or low , which has not revolved in manifest ... earth , by reason of their proper configura- tion ; or else that they are attracted by the mass and body of earth ...
... history worthy of credit , that there has been any comet , whether high or low , which has not revolved in manifest ... earth , by reason of their proper configura- tion ; or else that they are attracted by the mass and body of earth ...
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... earth and heaven are ever there , whereas the causes and origins of most other motions are sometimes absent , sometimes present . Accordingly this motion , because it ceases not , but when others cease is felt instantly , they deem per ...
... earth and heaven are ever there , whereas the causes and origins of most other motions are sometimes absent , sometimes present . Accordingly this motion , because it ceases not , but when others cease is felt instantly , they deem per ...
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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.