The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and ...
... remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and ...
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... remains to be done . Moreover , to be of good hope , nor to imagine that this Instauration of mine is a thing infinite and beyond the power of man , when it is in fact the true end and termination of infinite error ; and seeing also ...
... remains to be done . Moreover , to be of good hope , nor to imagine that this Instauration of mine is a thing infinite and beyond the power of man , when it is in fact the true end and termination of infinite error ; and seeing also ...
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... remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , - namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its own course , but ...
... remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , - namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its own course , but ...
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... remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty . For if I should profess that I , going the same road as the ancients , have something better to produce , there ...
... remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty . For if I should profess that I , going the same road as the ancients , have something better to produce , there ...
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... remains to us ; which is simply this : we must lead men to the particulars themselves , and their series and order ; while men on their side must force themselves for awhile to lay their notions by and begin to familiarise themselves ...
... remains to us ; which is simply this : we must lead men to the particulars themselves , and their series and order ; while men on their side must force themselves for awhile to lay their notions by and begin to familiarise themselves ...
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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.