The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira- tion with which our existing stock of ...
... causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira- tion with which our existing stock of ...
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... causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing ... cause ? device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and received , this is ...
... causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing ... cause ? device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and received , this is ...
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... causes of erring are the same in both . And if there have been any who , not binding themselves either to other men's opinions or to their own , but loving liberty , have desired to engage others along with them- selves in search ...
... causes of erring are the same in both . And if there have been any who , not binding themselves either to other men's opinions or to their own , but loving liberty , have desired to engage others along with them- selves in search ...
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... causes . And again when the sense does apprehend a thing its apprehension is not much to be relied upon . For the testimony and information of the sense has reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to ...
... causes . And again when the sense does apprehend a thing its apprehension is not much to be relied upon . For the testimony and information of the sense has reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to ...
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... causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss ...
... causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss ...
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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.