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... LEARNING . BOOKS II.—VI. ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . · BOOK III . BOOK IV . Book V. BOOK VI . Page 249 265 275 283 336 372 - 405 - 438 THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM , VISCOUNT viii CONTENTS .
... LEARNING . BOOKS II.—VI. ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . · BOOK III . BOOK IV . Book V. BOOK VI . Page 249 265 275 283 336 372 - 405 - 438 THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM , VISCOUNT viii CONTENTS .
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... Learning ; although , owing to the addi- tions , modifications , and corrections almost everywhere in- troduced , it has seldom been practicable to preserve the wording of the original English unaltered for many sentences together ...
... Learning ; although , owing to the addi- tions , modifications , and corrections almost everywhere in- troduced , it has seldom been practicable to preserve the wording of the original English unaltered for many sentences together ...
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... learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I shall in its proper place describe : that so at length , after the lapse of so many ages , philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on ...
... learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I shall in its proper place describe : that so at length , after the lapse of so many ages , philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on ...
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... learning as it now is appears to be represented to the life in the old fable of Scylla , who had the head and face of a virgin , but her womb was hung round with barking monsters , from which she could not be delivered . For in like ...
... learning as it now is appears to be represented to the life in the old fable of Scylla , who had the head and face of a virgin , but her womb was hung round with barking monsters , from which she could not be delivered . For in like ...
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... Learning , Divine and Human . " Next comes THE SECOND PART OF THE INSTAURATION , WHICH EXHIBITS THE ART ITSELF OF INTERPRETING NATURE , AND OF THE TRUER EXERCISE OF THE INTELLECT ; Not however in the form of a regular Treatise , but ...
... Learning , Divine and Human . " Next comes THE SECOND PART OF THE INSTAURATION , WHICH EXHIBITS THE ART ITSELF OF INTERPRETING NATURE , AND OF THE TRUER EXERCISE OF THE INTELLECT ; Not however in the form of a regular Treatise , but ...
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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.