The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... rest , I then intended merely to sub- mit my suggestions to the translator , leaving it to him to make such alterations as he thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the ...
... rest , I then intended merely to sub- mit my suggestions to the translator , leaving it to him to make such alterations as he thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the ...
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... rest flow ) are false , confused , and overhastily abstracted from the facts ; nor are the secondary and subsequent notions less arbitrary and inconstant ; whence it follows that the entire fabric of human reason which we employ in the ...
... rest flow ) are false , confused , and overhastily abstracted from the facts ; nor are the secondary and subsequent notions less arbitrary and inconstant ; whence it follows that the entire fabric of human reason which we employ in the ...
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... rest follows readily enough . And no doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I ...
... rest follows readily enough . And no doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I ...
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... rest on the solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts of nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ...
... rest on the solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts of nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ...
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... rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and handled dili- gently , there has risen up some man of bold disposition , and famous for methods and short ways which people like , who has in appearance ...
... rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and handled dili- gently , there has risen up some man of bold disposition , and famous for methods and short ways which people like , who has in appearance ...
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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.