The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with ... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the ... nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's Most bounden ...
... Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with ... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the ... nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's Most bounden ...
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... Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New Philosophy ...
... Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New Philosophy ...
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... natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good 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 ...
... natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good 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 ...
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... philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally ... natural history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of ... natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all ...
... philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally ... natural history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of ... natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all ...
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... philosophy in its course of natural history , not to let it accus- tom itself in the beginning to any vanity . Moreover , when- ever I come to a new experiment of any subtlety ( though it be in my own opinion certain and approved ) , I ...
... philosophy in its course of natural history , not to let it accus- tom itself in the beginning to any vanity . Moreover , when- ever I come to a new experiment of any subtlety ( though it be in my own opinion certain and approved ) , I ...
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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.