The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... memory of your name and the honour of your age ; if these things are indeed worth anything . Certainly they are quite new ; totally new in their very kind : and yet they are copied from a very ancient model ; even the world itself and ...
... memory of your name and the honour of your age ; if these things are indeed worth anything . Certainly they are quite new ; totally new in their very kind : and yet they are copied from a very ancient model ; even the world itself and ...
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... memory and learning of men extends , you can hardly pick out six that were fertile in sciences or favourable to their development . In times no less than in regions there are wastes and deserts . For only three revolutions and periods ...
... memory and learning of men extends , you can hardly pick out six that were fertile in sciences or favourable to their development . In times no less than in regions there are wastes and deserts . For only three revolutions and periods ...
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... memory whole , as it finds it ; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested . Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties , the ex- perimental and the rational , ( such as has never yet been made ) ...
... memory whole , as it finds it ; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested . Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties , the ex- perimental and the rational , ( such as has never yet been made ) ...
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... memory alone ; no more than if a man should hope by force of memory to retain and make himself master of the computation of an ephemeris . And yet hitherto more has been done in matter of invention by thinking than by writing ; and expe ...
... memory alone ; no more than if a man should hope by force of memory to retain and make himself master of the computation of an ephemeris . And yet hitherto more has been done in matter of invention by thinking than by writing ; and expe ...
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... memory , composition and division , judgment and the rest ; not less than for heat and cold , or light , or vegetation , or the like . But nevertheless since my method of interpretation , after the history has been prepared and duly ...
... memory , composition and division , judgment and the rest ; not less than for heat and cold , or light , or vegetation , or the like . But nevertheless since my method of interpretation , after the history has been prepared and duly ...
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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.