The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... force of the understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores ...
... force of the understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores ...
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... force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the ...
... force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the ...
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... force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock ...
... force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock ...
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... force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those twin objects , human Knowledge and human Power , do really meet in one ; and it is from ignorance of causes that operation fails . And all ...
... force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those twin objects , human Knowledge and human Power , do really meet in one ; and it is from ignorance of causes that operation fails . And all ...
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... , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . -- - Now my method , though hard to practise , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
... , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . -- - Now my method , though hard to practise , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
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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.