The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... especially for the benefit of those who cannot read Latin . Those who can , will find the originals not only richer , stronger , and more impressive , but also ( at least after a little practice ) easier to follow and pleasanter to read ...
... especially for the benefit of those who cannot read Latin . Those who can , will find the originals not only richer , stronger , and more impressive , but also ( at least after a little practice ) easier to follow and pleasanter to read ...
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... especially from this , that he has found no man hitherto who has applied his mind to the like , he resolved to publish at once so much as he has been able to complete . The cause of which haste was not ambition for himself , but ...
... especially from this , that he has found no man hitherto who has applied his mind to the like , he resolved to publish at once so much as he has been able to complete . The cause of which haste was not ambition for himself , but ...
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... especially concerns the work in hand ; namely , that you who resemble Solomon in so many things - in the gravity of your judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books ...
... especially concerns the work in hand ; namely , that you who resemble Solomon in so many things - in the gravity of your judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books ...
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... especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much to be relied upon . But the universe to the eye of the human understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on every side so many ...
... especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much to be relied upon . But the universe to the eye of the human understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on every side so many ...
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... ( especially for minds either tender or preoccupied ) to become familiar with nature , I not unfrequently subjoin obser- vations of my own , being as the first offers , inclinations , and as it were glances of history towards philosophy ...
... ( especially for minds either tender or preoccupied ) to become familiar with nature , I not unfrequently subjoin obser- vations of my own , being as the first offers , inclinations , and as it were glances of history towards philosophy ...
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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.