The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4.
... by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4.
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... course left , therefore , - to try the whole thing anew upon a better plan , and to com- mence a total ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ways of action , so much cele ...
... course left , therefore , - to try the whole thing anew upon a better plan , and to com- mence a total ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ways of action , so much cele ...
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... course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and that there being now no room for the invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it ...
... course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and that there being now no room for the invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it ...
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... course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes ...
... course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes ...
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... course and does her work her own way ) , — such as that of the heavenly 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 ...
... course and does her work her own way ) , — such as that of the heavenly 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 ...
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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.