The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... inventions is regarded be in the very entrance and threshold of the work , and that frankly and without circumlocution , stripped off , and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of them . For let a man look carefully ...
... inventions is regarded be in the very entrance and threshold of the work , and that frankly and without circumlocution , stripped off , and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of them . For let a man look carefully ...
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... invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the ...
... invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the ...
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... invention of arts have but cast a glance or two upon facts and examples and experience , and straightway proceeded ... inventions of mine with any majesty ; which might easily be done by one who sought to give lustre to his own name ...
... invention of arts have but cast a glance or two upon facts and examples and experience , and straightway proceeded ... inventions of mine with any majesty ; which might easily be done by one who sought to give lustre to his own name ...
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... inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity . This is the second part of the work . But I design not only to indicate and mark out the ways , but also to enter them . And therefore the ...
... inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity . This is the second part of the work . But I design not only to indicate and mark out the ways , but also to enter them . And therefore the ...
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... invention according to my method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there ...
... invention according to my method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there ...
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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.