The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... according to its own figure and section , so the mind , when it receives impressions of objects through the sense , cannot be trusted to report them truly , but in forming its notions mixes up its own nature with the nature of things ...
... according to its own figure and section , so the mind , when it receives impressions of objects through the sense , cannot be trusted to report them truly , but in forming its notions mixes up its own nature with the nature of things ...
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... according to my method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an ...
... according to my method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an ...
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... ? And if lastly , not content with this , they resolved to call in aid the art of athletics , and required all their men to come with hands , arms , and sinews well anointed and medicated according to the rules 40 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... ? And if lastly , not content with this , they resolved to call in aid the art of athletics , and required all their men to come with hands , arms , and sinews well anointed and medicated according to the rules 40 TRANSLATION OF THE.
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... according to the rules of art , would he not cry out that they were only taking pains to show a kind of method and discretion in their madness ? Yet just so it is that men proceed in matters intellectual , — with just the same kind of ...
... according to the rules of art , would he not cry out that they were only taking pains to show a kind of method and discretion in their madness ? Yet just so it is that men proceed in matters intellectual , — with just the same kind of ...
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... according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . And the human understanding is like a false mirror , which , receiving rays irre- gularly , distorts and discolours the nature of things by ...
... according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . And the human understanding is like a false mirror , which , receiving rays irre- gularly , distorts and discolours the nature of things by ...
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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.