The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... earth , or at least than anything that is of the earth , might by any means be restored to its per- fect and original condition , or if that may not be , yet reduced to a better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the ...
... earth , or at least than anything that is of the earth , might by any means be restored to its per- fect and original condition , or if that may not be , yet reduced to a better condition than that in which it now is . Now that the ...
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... earth , but seals and shuts up the face of heaven . My next , that in flying from this evil they fall not into the opposite error , which they will surely do if they think that the inquisition of nature is in any part interdicted or ...
... earth , but seals and shuts up the face of heaven . My next , that in flying from this evil they fall not into the opposite error , which they will surely do if they think that the inquisition of nature is in any part interdicted or ...
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... 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 . Therefore I set ...
... 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 . Therefore I set ...
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... earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is that of actions , as to generate , to corrupt , to alter ; the most faulty is of qualities ( except such as are the imme- diate objects of the sense ) as heavy , light , rare , dense , and the like ...
... earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is that of actions , as to generate , to corrupt , to alter ; the most faulty is of qualities ( except such as are the imme- diate objects of the sense ) as heavy , light , rare , dense , and the like ...
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... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into the indifferent nature of fire , and remoulded into solids ; have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher ...
... Earth of Parmenides ; the Strife and Friendship of Empedocles ; Heraclitus's doctrine how bodies are resolved into the indifferent nature of fire , and remoulded into solids ; have all of them some taste of the natural philosopher ...
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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.