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... ; WILLIS AND SOTHERAN ; J. CORNISH ; L. BOOTH ; J. SNOW ; AND AYLOTT AND CO . 1858 . The right of translation is reserved . PREFACE . WITH regard to the translations which occupy the TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.
... ; WILLIS AND SOTHERAN ; J. CORNISH ; L. BOOTH ; J. SNOW ; AND AYLOTT AND CO . 1858 . The right of translation is reserved . PREFACE . WITH regard to the translations which occupy the TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.
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Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. > | 1 PREFACE . With regard to the translations which occupy the.
Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. > | 1 PREFACE . With regard to the translations which occupy the.
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... regard to the translations which occupy the first half of this volume ( as far as p . 271. ) , I have nothing to add to what I have said ( Vol . I. p . xiv . ) in my general account of the edition . With regard to the rest , I then ...
... regard to the translations which occupy the first half of this volume ( as far as p . 271. ) , I have nothing to add to what I have said ( Vol . I. p . xiv . ) in my general account of the edition . With regard to the rest , I then ...
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... regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come into any man's mind . All the rest ...
... regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come into any man's mind . All the rest ...
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... regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much to be relied upon . But the universe to the eye of the human understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on ...
... regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much to be relied upon . But the universe to the eye of the human understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on ...
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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.