The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to assert that the sense is the measure of things . To meet these difficulties , I have sought on all sides dili- gently and faithfully to provide helps for the ...
... reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to assert that the sense is the measure of things . To meet these difficulties , I have sought on all sides dili- gently and faithfully to provide helps for the ...
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... . Even to deliver and explain what I bring forward is no easy matter ; for things in themselves new will yet be apprehended with reference to what is old . XXXV . It was said by Borgia of the expedition 52 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... . Even to deliver and explain what I bring forward is no easy matter ; for things in themselves new will yet be apprehended with reference to what is old . XXXV . It was said by Borgia of the expedition 52 TRANSLATION OF THE.
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... reference to a few things ; and Gilbert also , after he had employed himself most laboriously in the study and observation of the loadstone , proceeded at once to construct an entire system in accordance with his favourite subject . LV ...
... reference to a few things ; and Gilbert also , after he had employed himself most laboriously in the study and observation of the loadstone , proceeded at once to construct an entire system in accordance with his favourite subject . LV ...
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... reference to many things , ' ) but in the narrowness and darkness of a few experiments . To those therefore who are daily busied with these experiments , and have infected their imagination with them , such a philosophy seems probable ...
... reference to many things , ' ) but in the narrowness and darkness of a few experiments . To those therefore who are daily busied with these experiments , and have infected their imagination with them , such a philosophy seems probable ...
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... reference to them , they introduce with the greatest negligence a distinction between motion natural and violent ; a distinction which is itself drawn en- tirely from a vulgar notion , since all violent motion is also in fact natural ...
... reference to them , they introduce with the greatest negligence a distinction between motion natural and violent ; a distinction which is itself drawn en- tirely from a vulgar notion , since all violent motion is also in fact 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.