The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only fixed and fed ; and all the tradition and uccession of schools is still a succession of masters and scholars , not of inventors and those who bring ...
... question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only fixed and fed ; and all the tradition and uccession of schools is still a succession of masters and scholars , not of inventors and those who bring ...
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... questions ; in point of enlargement slow and languid ; carrying a show of perfection in the whole , but in the parts ill filled up ; in selection popular , and unsatisfactory even to those who propound them ; and therefore fenced round ...
... questions ; in point of enlargement slow and languid ; carrying a show of perfection in the whole , but in the parts ill filled up ; in selection popular , and unsatisfactory even to those who propound them ; and therefore fenced round ...
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... question . To the immediate and proper perception of the sense therefore I do not give much weight ; but I contrive that the office of the sense shall be only to judge of the experi- ment , and that the experiment itself shall judge of ...
... question . To the immediate and proper perception of the sense therefore I do not give much weight ; but I contrive that the office of the sense shall be only to judge of the experi- ment , and that the experiment itself shall judge of ...
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... question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard ...
... question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard ...
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... taken in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding even and clear . LIX . But the Idols of the Market - place are the most troublesome · of all : idols which have crept into the understanding 60 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... taken in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding even and clear . LIX . But the Idols of the Market - place are the most troublesome · of all : idols which have crept into the understanding 60 TRANSLATION OF THE.
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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.