The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... nature is in any part interdicted or forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to the creatures accord- ing to their propriety , which gave occasion to the fall . It was the ambitious ...
... nature is in any part interdicted or forbidden . For it was not that pure and uncorrupted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to the creatures accord- ing to their propriety , which gave occasion to the fall . It was the ambitious ...
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... nature in action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any ...
... nature in action . In accordance with this end is also the nature and order of the demonstrations . For in the ordinary logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any ...
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... nature with the nature of things . And as the first two kinds of idols are hard to eradicate , so idols of this last kind cannot be eradicated at all . All that can be done is to point them out , so that this insidious action of the ...
... nature with the nature of things . And as the first two kinds of idols are hard to eradicate , so idols of this last kind cannot be eradicated at all . All that can be done is to point them out , so that this insidious action of the ...
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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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... nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom . Nor do I confine the history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate history of such Virtues as may be ...
... nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom . Nor do I confine the history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate history of such Virtues as may be ...
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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.