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... 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 .
... 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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... persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and handled dili- gently , there has risen up some man of bold disposition , and famous for methods and short ways ...
... persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and handled dili- gently , there has risen up some man of bold disposition , and famous for methods and short ways ...
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... persons only . The other point of which I would have men reminded relates to the matter itself . Be it remembered then that I am far from wishing to interfere with the philosophy which now flourishes , or with NOVUM ORGANUM . 41.
... persons only . The other point of which I would have men reminded relates to the matter itself . Be it remembered then that I am far from wishing to interfere with the philosophy which now flourishes , or with NOVUM ORGANUM . 41.
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... parts of the spirit in itself , not to the distribution of it in dif- ferent persons ; as in the expression well disposed , ill disposed , & c . — J . S. Market - place , on account of the commerce and 54 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... parts of the spirit in itself , not to the distribution of it in dif- ferent persons ; as in the expression well disposed , ill disposed , & c . — J . S. Market - place , on account of the commerce and 54 TRANSLATION OF THE.
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... persons who had more which suits and pleases the capacity and tastes of the vulgar : time , like a river , bringing down to us things which are light and puffed up , but letting weighty matters sink . Still even they were not altogether ...
... persons who had more which suits and pleases the capacity and tastes of the vulgar : time , like a river , bringing down to us things which are light and puffed up , but letting weighty matters sink . Still even they were not altogether ...
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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.