The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... servant in my life , so after my death I may yet perhaps , through the kindling of this new light in the darkness of philo- sophy , be the means of making this age famous to posterity ; I and surely to the times of the wisest and 11.
... servant in my life , so after my death I may yet perhaps , through the kindling of this new light in the darkness of philo- sophy , be the means of making this age famous to posterity ; I and surely to the times of the wisest and 11.
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... light and published ; much less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither ... light anywhere , they were presently blown out by the winds of vulgar opinions . So that Time is like a river , which ...
... light and published ; much less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither ... light anywhere , they were presently blown out by the winds of vulgar opinions . So that Time is like a river , which ...
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... Light ; not imitating the divine pro- cedure , which in its first day's work created light only and assigned to it one entire day ; on which day it produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those ...
... Light ; not imitating the divine pro- cedure , which in its first day's work created light only and assigned to it one entire day ; on which day it produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those ...
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... light to other men's minds . I have not sought ( I say ) nor do I seek either to force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have ...
... light to other men's minds . I have not sought ( I say ) nor do I seek either to force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have ...
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... light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely ...
... light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely ...
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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.