The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... knowledge , raised upon the proper foundations . And this , though in the project and undertaking it may seem a thing infinite and beyond the powers of man , yet when it comes to be dealt with it will be found sound and sober , more so ...
... knowledge , raised upon the proper foundations . And this , though in the project and undertaking it may seem a thing infinite and beyond the powers of man , yet when it comes to be dealt with it will be found sound and sober , more so ...
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... knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing ; and that a way must be opened for the human understanding en- tirely different from any hitherto known , and other helps provided , in order that the mind may exercise over the nature ...
... knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing ; and that a way must be opened for the human understanding en- tirely different from any hitherto known , and other helps provided , in order that the mind may exercise over the nature ...
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... knowledge , and has the characteristic property of boys : it can talk , but it cannot gene- rate ; for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works . that the state of learning as it now is appears to be represented to the life ...
... knowledge , and has the characteristic property of boys : it can talk , but it cannot gene- rate ; for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works . that the state of learning as it now is appears to be represented to the life ...
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... knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore , amend some things , but advance little ; and improve the condition of knowledge , but do not extend its range . Some ...
... knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore , amend some things , but advance little ; and improve the condition of knowledge , but do not extend its range . Some ...
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... knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to swell , we may not be wise above measure and sobriety , but ... Knowledge true ends of knowledge , and that 20 PREFACE .
... knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to swell , we may not be wise above measure and sobriety , but ... Knowledge true ends of knowledge , and that 20 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.