The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts ...
... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts ...
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... opinions by pulling down and demolishing former ones ; and yet all their stir has but little advanced the matter ; since their aim has been not to extend philosophy and the arts in substance and value , but 16 PREFACE .
... opinions by pulling down and demolishing former ones ; and yet all their stir has but little advanced the matter ; since their aim has been not to extend philosophy and the arts in substance and value , but 16 PREFACE .
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Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. philosophy and the arts in substance and value , but only to change doctrines and transfer the kingdom of opinions to them- selves ; whereby little has indeed been ...
Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. philosophy and the arts in substance and value , but only to change doctrines and transfer the kingdom of opinions to them- selves ; whereby little has indeed been ...
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... philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence of method that can supply it with the material of knowledge . Those ...
... philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going astray or stumbling , but it is not any excellence of method that can supply it with the material of knowledge . Those ...
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... philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green corn ...
... philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green corn ...
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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.