The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... action , so much cele- brated , in this - that the one , arduous and difficult in the beginning , leads out at last into the open country ; while the other , seeming at first sight easy and free from obstruction , leads to pathless and ...
... action , so much cele- brated , in this - that the one , arduous and difficult in the beginning , leads out at last into the open country ; while the other , seeming at first sight easy and free from obstruction , leads to pathless and ...
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... action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any serious ...
... action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any serious ...
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... action of the mind may be marked and reproved ( else as fast as old errors are destroyed new ones will spring up out of the ill complexion of the mind itself , and so we shall have but a change of errors , and not a clearance ) ; and to ...
... action of the mind may be marked and reproved ( else as fast as old errors are destroyed new ones will spring up out of the ill complexion of the mind itself , and so we shall have but a change of errors , and not a clearance ) ; and to ...
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... action ; to seek , not pretty and probable conjec- tures , but certain and demonstrable knowledge ; -I invite all such to join themselves , as true sons of knowledge , with me , that passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers ...
... action ; to seek , not pretty and probable conjec- tures , but certain and demonstrable knowledge ; -I invite all such to join themselves , as true sons of knowledge , with me , that passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers ...
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... Action , Passion , Essence itself , are not sound notions : much less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas ...
... Action , Passion , Essence itself , are not sound notions : much less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas ...
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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.