The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the errors which have hitherto prevailed , and which will pre- vail for ever , should ( if the mind be left to go its own way ) , either by the natural force of the understanding ...
... better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the errors which have hitherto prevailed , and which will pre- vail for ever , should ( if the mind be left to go its own way ) , either by the natural force of the understanding ...
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... better plan , and to com- mence a total reconstruction of sciences , arts , and all human knowledge , raised upon the proper foundations . And this , though in the project and undertaking it may seem a thing infinite and beyond the ...
... better plan , and to com- mence a total reconstruction of sciences , arts , and all human knowledge , raised upon the proper foundations . And this , though in the project and undertaking it may seem a thing infinite and beyond the ...
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... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of ...
... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of ...
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... better listened to ; for " He that is ignorant ( says the proverb ) re- ceives not the words of knowledge , unless thou first tell him that which is in his own heart . " We will therefore make a coasting voyage along the shores of the ...
... better listened to ; for " He that is ignorant ( says the proverb ) re- ceives not the words of knowledge , unless thou first tell him that which is in his own heart . " We will therefore make a coasting voyage along the shores of the ...
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... better than wishes ; when they are in fact things which men may certainly command if they will , and of which I have formed in my own mind a clear and detailed conception . For I do not propose merely to survey these regions in my mind ...
... better than wishes ; when they are in fact things which men may certainly command if they will , and of which I have formed in my own mind a clear and detailed conception . For I do not propose merely to survey these regions in my mind ...
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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.