The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... bodies , meteors , earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded ...
... bodies , meteors , earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded ...
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... bodies lies hid and un- observed of men . So also all the more subtle changes of form in the parts of coarser substances ( which they commonly call alteration , though it is in truth local motion through exceed- ingly small spaces ) is ...
... bodies lies hid and un- observed of men . So also all the more subtle changes of form in the parts of coarser substances ( which they commonly call alteration , though it is in truth local motion through exceed- ingly small spaces ) is ...
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... bodies in their simple form break up and distract the understanding , while contemplations of nature and bodies in their composition and configuration overpower and dissolve the understanding : a distinction well seen in the school of ...
... bodies in their simple form break up and distract the understanding , while contemplations of nature and bodies in their composition and configuration overpower and dissolve the understanding : a distinction well seen in the school of ...
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... bodies of greater or less dimensions , that is , occupy greater or less spaces ) , by the frigid distinction of act and power ; asserting that single bodies have each a single and pro- per motion , and that if they participate in any ...
... bodies of greater or less dimensions , that is , occupy greater or less spaces ) , by the frigid distinction of act and power ; asserting that single bodies have each a single and pro- per motion , and that if they participate in any ...
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... bodies proceeds chiefly by composition or separation , and so imagines that something similar goes on in the universal nature of things . From this source has flowed the fiction of elements , and of their concourse for the formation of ...
... bodies proceeds chiefly by composition or separation , and so imagines that something similar goes on in the universal nature of things . From this source has flowed the fiction of elements , and of their concourse for the formation of ...
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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.