The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing As certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing As certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
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... fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest ...
... fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest ...
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... 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 forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to ...
... 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 forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to ...
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... falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying of contradictions and heart - burnings , that the honour and reve- rence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time ...
... falls out fortunately as I think for the allaying of contradictions and heart - burnings , that the honour and reve- rence due to the ancients remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time ...
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... falls back upon that which is more nigh at hand ; namely , on final causes : which have relation clearly to the nature of man rather than to the nature of the universe ; and from this source have strangely defiled philosophy . But he is ...
... falls back upon that which is more nigh at hand ; namely , on final causes : which have relation clearly to the nature of man rather than to the nature of the universe ; and from this source have strangely defiled philosophy . But he is ...
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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.