The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... motion or guide it , so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions . III . Human knowledge and human power meet in one ; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced ...
... motion or guide it , so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions . III . Human knowledge and human power meet in one ; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced ...
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... motion through exceed- ingly small spaces ) is in like manner unobserved . And yet unless these two things just mentioned be searched out and brought to light , nothing great can be achieved in nature , as far as the production of works ...
... motion through exceed- ingly small spaces ) is in like manner unobserved . And yet unless these two things just mentioned be searched out and brought to light , nothing great can be achieved in nature , as far as the production of works ...
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... motion , or from an infusion of the affections , or from the incompetency of the senses , or from the mode of impression . LIII . The Idols of the Cave take their rise in the peculiar con- stitution , mental or bodily , of each ...
... motion , or from an infusion of the affections , or from the incompetency of the senses , or from the mode of impression . LIII . The Idols of the Cave take their rise in the peculiar con- stitution , mental or bodily , of each ...
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... motion ; and that which readily clings to another body and wets it ; and that which is easily reduced to a liquid , or being solid easily melts . Accordingly when you come to apply the word , —if you take it in one sense , flame is ...
... motion ; and that which readily clings to another body and wets it ; and that which is easily reduced to a liquid , or being solid easily melts . Accordingly when you come to apply the word , —if you take it in one sense , flame is ...
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... motion , and that if they participate in any other , then this results from an external cause ; and imposing countless other arbitrary restrictions on the nature of things ; being always more solicitous to provide an answer to the ...
... motion , and that if they participate in any other , then this results from an external cause ; and imposing countless other arbitrary restrictions on the nature of things ; being always more solicitous to provide an answer to the ...
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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.