The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... extremely powerful and sensitive , full of felici- ties and delicate effects , depending upon its own peculiar resources , and not transferable in the same form into a language of different structure . A literal translation in English.
... extremely powerful and sensitive , full of felici- ties and delicate effects , depending upon its own peculiar resources , and not transferable in the same form into a language of different structure . A literal translation in English.
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... effect of the original , if read by itself . The two languages differ so widely in their capacities and essential conditions , that the turn of expression which is neatest and clearest in the one is apt to be awkward and obscure in the ...
... effect of the original , if read by itself . The two languages differ so widely in their capacities and essential conditions , that the turn of expression which is neatest and clearest in the one is apt to be awkward and obscure in the ...
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... effect ; the effect of the one being to overcome an opponent in argument , of the other to command nature in action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all ...
... effect ; the effect of the one being to overcome an opponent in argument , of the other to command nature in action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all ...
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... effect of fixing errors rather than disclosing truth . There remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , - namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be ...
... effect of fixing errors rather than disclosing truth . There remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , - namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be ...
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... effects . Let there be therefore ( and may it be for the benefit of both ) two streams and two dispensations of knowledge ; and in like manner two tribes or kindreds of students in philosophy— tribes not hostile or alien to each other ...
... effects . Let there be therefore ( and may it be for the benefit of both ) two streams and two dispensations of knowledge ; and in like manner two tribes or kindreds of students in philosophy— tribes not hostile or alien to each other ...
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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.