The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither the births nor the miscarriages of Time are entered in our records . Nor , secondly , is the consent itself and the time it has con- tinued a ...
... less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither the births nor the miscarriages of Time are entered in our records . Nor , secondly , is the consent itself and the time it has con- tinued a ...
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... less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to ...
... less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to ...
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... less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas- tical and ill defined . XVI . Our notions of less general species ...
... less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas- tical and ill defined . XVI . Our notions of less general species ...
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... less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general , than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so . XLIX . The human understanding is no dry light , but receives an infusion from ...
... less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general , than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so . XLIX . The human understanding is no dry light , but receives an infusion from ...
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... less dense than air ( which are very many ) , is almost unknown . For the sense by itself is a thing infirm and erring ; neither can instru- ments for enlarging or sharpening the senses do much ; but all the truer kind of interpretation ...
... less dense than air ( which are very many ) , is almost unknown . For the sense by itself is a thing infirm and erring ; neither can instru- ments for enlarging or sharpening the senses do much ; but all the truer kind of interpretation ...
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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.