The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what was a question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only ...
... receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what was a question once is a question still , and instead of being resolved by discussion is only ...
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... received , this is their condition : barren of works , full of 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 ...
... received , this is their condition : barren of works , full of 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 ...
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... received , though it be very properly applied to civil business and to those arts which rest in discourse and opinion , is not nearly subtle enough to deal with nature ; and in offering VOL . IV . at what it cannot master , has done ...
... received , though it be very properly applied to civil business and to those arts which rest in discourse and opinion , is not nearly subtle enough to deal with nature ; and in offering VOL . IV . at what it cannot master , has done ...
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... 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 be as much an object as the acquisition of more . Besides which it will make me ...
... 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 be as much an object as the acquisition of more . Besides which it will make me ...
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... received divisions of the sciences are fitted only to the received sum of them as it stands now . With regard to those things which I shall mark as omitted , I intend not merely to set down a simple title or a concise argument of that ...
... received divisions of the sciences are fitted only to the received sum of them as it stands now . With regard to those things which I shall mark as omitted , I intend not merely to set down a simple title or a concise argument of that ...
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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.