The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... 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 .
... 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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... increasing their retinue . And let it not be said that the sciences have been growing gradually till they have at last reached their full stature , and so ( their course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and ...
... increasing their retinue . And let it not be said that the sciences have been growing gradually till they have at last reached their full stature , and so ( their course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and ...
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... increase the number of errors and wanderers . In circum- stances so difficult neither the natural force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance ...
... increase the number of errors and wanderers . In circum- stances so difficult neither the natural force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance ...
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... increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less ...
... increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less ...
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... increase or progress lies in a reconstruction of the sciences . Of this reconstruction the foundation must be laid in natural history , and that of a new kind and gathered on a new principle . For it is in vain that you polish the ...
... increase or progress lies in a reconstruction of the sciences . Of this reconstruction the foundation must be laid in natural history , and that of a new kind and gathered on a new principle . For it is in vain that you polish the ...
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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.