The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have ...
... produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have ...
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... produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those who have given the first place to Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly ...
... produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those who have given the first place to Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly ...
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... produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which come within reach , I utterly condemn and reject , as an Atalanta's apple that ...
... produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which come within reach , I utterly condemn and reject , as an Atalanta's apple that ...
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... produce , there must needs have been some comparison or rivalry between us ( not to be avoided by any art of words ) in respect of excellency or ability of wit ; and though in this there would be nothing unlawful or new ( for if there ...
... produce , there must needs have been some comparison or rivalry between us ( not to be avoided by any art of words ) in respect of excellency or ability of wit ; and though in this there would be nothing unlawful or new ( for if there ...
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... produced . Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in con- templation is as the cause is in operation as the rule . IV . Towards the effecting of works , all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural ...
... produced . Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in con- templation is as the cause is in operation as the rule . IV . Towards the effecting of works , all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural ...
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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.