The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... magnet , and the chemists with gold ; a course of proceeding not less un- skilful in the design than small in the attempt . For no one successfully investigates the nature of a thing in the thing itself ; the inquiry must be enlarged ...
... magnet , and the chemists with gold ; a course of proceeding not less un- skilful in the design than small in the attempt . For no one successfully investigates the nature of a thing in the thing itself ; the inquiry must be enlarged ...
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... magnet , the ebb and flow of the sea , the system of the heavens , and things of this kind , which seem to be in some measure secret , and have hitherto been handled without much success . Whereas it is most unskilful to investigate the ...
... magnet , the ebb and flow of the sea , the system of the heavens , and things of this kind , which seem to be in some measure secret , and have hitherto been handled without much success . Whereas it is most unskilful to investigate the ...
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... magnet , any one had said that a certain instrument had been invented by means of which the quarters and points of the heavens could be taken and distinguished with exactness ; men would have been carried by their imagination to a ...
... magnet , any one had said that a certain instrument had been invented by means of which the quarters and points of the heavens could be taken and distinguished with exactness ; men would have been carried by their imagination to a ...
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... magnet . For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature , the second in warfare , the third in navigation ; whence have followed innu- merable changes ; insomuch that no ...
... magnet . For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ; the first in literature , the second in warfare , the third in navigation ; whence have followed innu- merable changes ; insomuch that no ...
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... magnet armed with iron , or rather the iron in an armed magnet . For it is a fact in nature that an armed magnet at some distance off does not attract iron more powerfully than an unarmed magnet . But if the iron be brought so near as ...
... magnet armed with iron , or rather the iron in an armed magnet . For it is a fact in nature that an armed magnet at some distance off does not attract iron more powerfully than an unarmed magnet . But if the iron be brought so near as ...
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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.