The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... matter of science there is only a whirling round about , and perpetual agitation , ending where it began . And although he was well aware how solitary an enterprise it is , and how hard a thing to win faith and credit for , nevertheless ...
... matter of science there is only a whirling round about , and perpetual agitation , ending where it began . And although he was well aware how solitary an enterprise it is , and how hard a thing to win faith and credit for , nevertheless ...
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... matter and giving their genius full play , have made a passage for themselves and their own opinions by pulling down and demolishing former ones ; and yet all their stir has but little advanced the matter ; since their aim has been not ...
... matter and giving their genius full play , have made a passage for themselves and their own opinions by pulling down and demolishing former ones ; and yet all their stir has but little advanced the matter ; since their aim has been not ...
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... matter of any worth ) take care to subjoin either directions for the execution of such work , or else a portion of the work itself executed by myself as a sample of the whole : thus giving assistance in every case either by work or by ...
... matter of any worth ) take care to subjoin either directions for the execution of such work , or else a portion of the work itself executed by myself as a sample of the whole : thus giving assistance in every case either by work or by ...
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... matter , that it is no wonder if nature will not give herself into their hands . For first , the information of the sense itself , sometimes failing , sometimes false ; observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition ...
... matter , that it is no wonder if nature will not give herself into their hands . For first , the information of the sense itself , sometimes failing , sometimes false ; observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition ...
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... matter or to help with present use of experiments , as to give light to the dis- covery of causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active ...
... matter or to help with present use of experiments , as to give light to the dis- covery of causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active ...
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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.