The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
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... examples and experience , and straightway proceeded , as if inven- tion were nothing more than an exercise of thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the ...
... examples and experience , and straightway proceeded , as if inven- tion were nothing more than an exercise of thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the ...
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... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
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... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
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... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
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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.