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... thing , varying in the method of treat- ment , but not new in substance , insomuch that the whole stock , numerous as it appears at first view , proves on examination to So be but scanty . And for its value and 13 PREFACE ·
... thing , varying in the method of treat- ment , but not new in substance , insomuch that the whole stock , numerous as it appears at first view , proves on examination to So be but scanty . And for its value and 13 PREFACE ·
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... methods and short ways which people like , who has in appearance reduced them to an art , while he has in fact only spoiled all that the others had done . And yet this is what posterity like , because it makes the work short and easy ...
... methods and short ways which people like , who has in appearance reduced them to an art , while he has in fact only spoiled all that the others had done . And yet this is what posterity like , because it makes the work short and easy ...
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... method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence of method that can supply it with the material of knowledge . Those however who aspire not to guess ...
... method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence of method that can supply it with the material of knowledge . Those however who aspire not to guess ...
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... method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most ... methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides ...
... method , exhibited by anticipation in some particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most ... methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides ...
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... , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . -- - Now my method , though hard to practise , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
... , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . -- - Now my method , though hard to practise , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
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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.