The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... once so much as he has been able to complete . The cause of which haste was not ambition for himself , but solicitude for the work ; that in case of his death there might remain some outline and project of that which he had conceived ...
... once so much as he has been able to complete . The cause of which haste was not ambition for himself , but solicitude for the work ; that in case of his death there might remain some outline and project of that which he had conceived ...
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... once is asserted still , but what was a question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only fixed and fed ; and all the tradition and uccession of schools is still a succession of masters and scholars ...
... once is asserted still , but what was a question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only fixed and fed ; and all the tradition and uccession of schools is still a succession of masters and scholars ...
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... once to admire an author and to go beyond him ; knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore , amend some things , but advance little ; and improve the condition of ...
... once to admire an author and to go beyond him ; knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore , amend some things , but advance little ; and improve the condition of ...
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... once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes to a rest- ing - place ...
... once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes to a rest- ing - place ...
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... once was , the companion of innocence and simplicity ) , let me first explain the order and plan of the work . I distribute it into six parts . The first part exhibits a summary or general description of the knowledge which the human ...
... once was , the companion of innocence and simplicity ) , let me first explain the order and plan of the work . I distribute it into six parts . The first part exhibits a summary or general description of the knowledge which the human ...
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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.