The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... pass by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4.
... pass by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4.
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... pass which has been the case now for many ages - that they stand almost at a stay , without receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what ...
... pass which has been the case now for many ages - that they stand almost at a stay , without receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what ...
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... passing beyond . To the second part therefore belongs the doctrine concerning the better and more perfect use of human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con ...
... passing beyond . To the second part therefore belongs the doctrine concerning the better and more perfect use of human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con ...
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... pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt ...
... pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt ...
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... passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers have trodden , we may find a way at length into her inner chambers . And to make my meaning clearer and to fa- miliarise the thing by giving it a name , I have chosen to call one of ...
... passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers have trodden , we may find a way at length into her inner chambers . And to make my meaning clearer and to fa- miliarise the thing by giving it a name , I have chosen to call one of ...
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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.