The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old continent . or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ; but before the ocean could be traversed and the new world discovered , the use of the mariner's ...
... observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old continent . or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ; but before the ocean could be traversed and the new world discovered , the use of the mariner's ...
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... observed that the fables and supersti- tions and follies which nurses instil into children do serious injury to their minds ; and the same consideration makes me anxious , having the management of the childhood as it were of philosophy ...
... observed that the fables and supersti- tions and follies which nurses instil into children do serious injury to their minds ; and the same consideration makes me anxious , having the management of the childhood as it were of philosophy ...
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... observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing . For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those ...
... observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing . For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those ...
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... observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything . II . Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much . It is by instruments and helps that ...
... observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything . II . Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much . It is by instruments and helps that ...
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... observed or not known before , chance to come in the way , the axiom is rescued and preserved by some frivolous distinc- tion ; whereas the truer course would be to correct the axiom itself . XXVI . The conclusions of human reason as ...
... observed or not known before , chance to come in the way , the axiom is rescued and preserved by some frivolous distinc- tion ; whereas the truer course would be to correct the axiom itself . XXVI . The conclusions of human reason as ...
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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.