The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS THAT THEY SHOULD BE MADE ACQUAINTED WITH HIS THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which are at man's disposal soberly and judiciously ...
... PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS THAT THEY SHOULD BE MADE ACQUAINTED WITH HIS THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which are at man's disposal soberly and judiciously ...
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... 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- tion with which our existing stock of inventions is regarded be in the very ...
... 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- tion with which our existing stock of inventions is regarded be in the very ...
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... present and future generations guidance more faithful and secure . Wherein if I have made any progress , the way has been opened to me by no other means than the true and legitimate humiliation of the human spirit . For all those who ...
... present and future generations guidance more faithful and secure . Wherein if I have made any progress , the way has been opened to me by no other means than the true and legitimate humiliation of the human spirit . For all those who ...
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... present possesses . For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that which we have to ...
... present possesses . For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that which we have to ...
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... present use of experiments , as to give light to the dis- covery of causes and supply a suckling 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 ...
... present use of experiments , as to give light to the dis- covery of causes and supply a suckling 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 ...
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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.