The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
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... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
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... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old ...
... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old ...
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... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
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... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
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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.