The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... 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 shall in its proper place describe : that so at length , after the lapse of ...
... 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 shall in its proper place describe : that so at length , after the lapse of ...
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... experiments pursued a kind of wandering inquiry , without any regular system of operations . And besides they have mostly proposed to themselves certain petty tasks , taking it for a great matter to work out some single discovery ; —a ...
... experiments pursued a kind of wandering inquiry , without any regular system of operations . And besides they have mostly proposed to themselves certain petty tasks , taking it for a great matter to work out some single discovery ; —a ...
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... 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 ambiguities of way , such deceitful resemblances of ...
... 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 ambiguities of way , such deceitful resemblances of ...
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... experiments . For the subtlety of experiments is far greater than that of the sense itself , even when assisted by exquisite instruments ; such experiments , I mean , as are skilfully and artificially devised for the express purpose of ...
... experiments . For the subtlety of experiments is far greater than that of the sense itself , even when assisted by exquisite instruments ; such experiments , I mean , as are skilfully and artificially devised for the express purpose of ...
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... experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and pre- maturely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial and poor ; -all these have contributed to supply the understanding with very bad materials for philosophy and the sciences . Then an ...
... experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and pre- maturely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial and poor ; -all these have contributed to supply the understanding with very bad materials for philosophy and the sciences . Then an ...
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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.