The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... comes to be dealt with it will be found sound and sober , more so than what has been done hitherto . For of this there is some issue ; whereas in what is now done in the matter of science there is only a whirling round about , and ...
... comes to be dealt with it will be found sound and sober , more so than what has been done hitherto . For of this there is some issue ; whereas in what is now done in the matter of science there is only a whirling round about , and ...
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... come to particulars , which are as the parts of genera- tion , when they should produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also ...
... come to particulars , which are as the parts of genera- tion , when they should produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also ...
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... come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show ...
... come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show ...
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... comes to a rest- ing - place , but still finds something to seek beyond . And there is another thing to be remembered ; namely , that all industry in experimenting has begun with proposing to itself certain definite works to be ...
... comes to a rest- ing - place , but still finds something to seek beyond . And there is another thing to be remembered ; namely , that all industry in experimenting has begun with proposing to itself certain definite works to be ...
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... come in danger by it . The requests I have to make are these . Of myself I say nothing ; but in behalf of the business which is in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not an opinion to be held , but a work to be done ; and to be ...
... come in danger by it . The requests I have to make are these . Of myself I say nothing ; but in behalf of the business which is in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not an opinion to be held , but a work to be done ; and to be ...
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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.