The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 53
Página
... practice ) easier to follow and pleasanter to read . In Bacon's time Latin was still a living language among scholars . They used it not to show how well they could imitate the manner in which Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts ...
... practice ) easier to follow and pleasanter to read . In Bacon's time Latin was still a living language among scholars . They used it not to show how well they could imitate the manner in which Cicero or Tacitus expressed his thoughts ...
Página 18
... practice , meditation , observation , argumentation , — for they lay near to the senses , and immediately beneath common notions ; but before we can reach the remoter and more hidden parts of nature , it is necessary that a more perfect ...
... practice , meditation , observation , argumentation , — for they lay near to the senses , and immediately beneath common notions ; but before we can reach the remoter and more hidden parts of nature , it is necessary that a more perfect ...
Página 24
... practice , and altogether unavailable for the active department of the sciences . Although therefore I leave to the syllogism and these famous and boasted modes of demonstration their jurisdiction over popular arts and such as are ...
... practice , and altogether unavailable for the active department of the sciences . Although therefore I leave to the syllogism and these famous and boasted modes of demonstration their jurisdiction over popular arts and such as are ...
Página 28
... practice , slavishly bent upon its work ; experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and pre- maturely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial and poor ; -all these have contributed to supply the understanding with very bad materials ...
... practice , slavishly bent upon its work ; experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and pre- maturely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial and poor ; -all these have contributed to supply the understanding with very bad materials ...
Página 63
... practice of the hand , if it be done by aim of hand only , but if with the aid of rule or compass , little or nothing ; so is it exactly with my plan . But though particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and ...
... practice of the hand , if it be done by aim of hand only , but if with the aid of rule or compass , little or nothing ; so is it exactly with my plan . But though particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action ancient animals Aristotle authority axioms better burning-glass causes CHAP Cicero cold colour common configurations crown 8vo Democritus diligence discourse discovered discovery diurnal motion divine Division doctrine concerning earth Edinburgh Review errors especially example experiments Fingerpost fire flame glass greater hand heat heaven heavenly bodies History of Earth honour human Idols induction inquiry invention iron judgment kind knowledge labour Lastly learning less let the nature light likewise logic magnet manner matter means medicine memory men's ment method mind morocco motion namely Natural History natural philosophy nature in question object observed operation opinion particular Physic plants Plato Poesy Post 8vo Prerogative Instances Promptuary quicksilver reason received regard sciences sense Sophism soul speak spirit of wine substances subtlety syllogism thought tion touch true truth understanding virtue vols whereas whereof wood Woodcuts words
Pasajes populares
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.