The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... follow and pleasanter to read . In Bacon's time Latin was still a living language among scholars . They used it not to show how well they could imitate the manner in which Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts , but to express their ...
... follow and pleasanter to read . In Bacon's time Latin was still a living language among scholars . They used it not to show how well they could imitate the manner in which Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts , but to express their ...
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... follows manifold ignorance of things , and by reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable ; he thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than ...
... follows manifold ignorance of things , and by reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable ; he thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than ...
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... follows readily enough . And no doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have ...
... follows readily enough . And no doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have ...
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... follow his 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 ...
... follow his 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 ...
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... follows , that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of the arts which they possess , they seek no further ; or else from too mean an estimate of their own powers , they spend their strength in small matters and never put it ...
... follows , that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of the arts which they possess , they seek no further ; or else from too mean an estimate of their own powers , they spend their strength in small matters and never put it ...
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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.