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... judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books which you have composed - would further follow his example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural ...
... judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books which you have composed - would further follow his example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural ...
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... judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most fallacious and weak . For , first , we are far from knowing all that in the matter of sciences and arts has in various ages and places been brought to ...
... judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most fallacious and weak . For , first , we are far from knowing all that in the matter of sciences and arts has in various ages and places been brought to ...
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... 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 whole way from ...
... 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 whole way from ...
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... 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 . And for myself , if in ...
... 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 . And for myself , if in ...
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... judgment made thereby . For the induction of which the logicians speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account ...
... judgment made thereby . For the induction of which the logicians speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account ...
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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.