The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... opinion for the worse ; and no one who cares to read Bacon will find any difficulty in understanding his own English ... opinions . J. S. TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . PART I. VOL . vi PREFACE .
... opinion for the worse ; and no one who cares to read Bacon will find any difficulty in understanding his own English ... opinions . J. S. TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS . PART I. VOL . vi PREFACE .
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... opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira ...
... opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira ...
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... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing As certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
... to support some one person's opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing As certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let 14 PREFACE .
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... opinions . So that Time is like a river , which has brought down to us things light and puffed up , while those which are weighty and solid have sunk . Nay , those very authors who have usurped a kind of dictatorship in the sciences and ...
... opinions . So that Time is like a river , which has brought down to us things light and puffed up , while those which are weighty and solid have sunk . Nay , those very authors who have usurped a kind of dictatorship in the sciences and ...
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... opinions or to seek their knowledge at the fountain ; but they think they have done some great thing if they do but add and introduce into the existing sum of science something of their own ; prudently considering with themselves that ...
... opinions or to seek their knowledge at the fountain ; but they think they have done some great thing if they do but add and introduce into the existing sum of science something of their own ; prudently considering with themselves that ...
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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.