The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own Advancement of Learning ; although , owing to the addi- tions , modifications , and corrections almost everywhere in- troduced , it has seldom been ...
... authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own Advancement of Learning ; although , owing to the addi- tions , modifications , and corrections almost everywhere in- troduced , it has seldom been ...
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... authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an extravagant estimate ...
... authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an extravagant estimate ...
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... authority of that art itself as impossible of attainment ; and how can art be found guilty when it is judge in its own cause ? So it is but a device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and ...
... authority of that art itself as impossible of attainment ; and how can art be found guilty when it is judge in its own cause ? So it is but a device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and ...
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... authority , or even by the veil of obscurity , to invest these inventions of mine with any majesty ; which might easily be done by one who sought to give lustre to his own name rather than light to other men's minds . I have not sought ...
... authority , or even by the veil of obscurity , to invest these inventions of mine with any majesty ; which might easily be done by one who sought to give lustre to his own name rather than light to other men's minds . I have not sought ...
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... enter the several provinces of science armed with a higher authority than belongs to the principles of those sciences themselves , and ought to call those putative principles to account until they PLAN OF THE WORK . 25.
... enter the several provinces of science armed with a higher authority than belongs to the principles of those sciences themselves , and ought to call those putative principles to account until they PLAN OF THE WORK . 25.
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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.