The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of the arts which they possess ...
... seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of the arts which they possess ...
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... seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much ...
... seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor the experiments as yet known are much ...
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... seem that we have no more to do but to proceed to philosophy itself . And yet in a matter so difficult and doubtful there are still some things which it seems necessary to premise , partly for convenience of explana- tion , partly for ...
... seem that we have no more to do but to proceed to philosophy itself . And yet in a matter so difficult and doubtful there are still some things which it seems necessary to premise , partly for convenience of explana- tion , partly for ...
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... seems ) that this very question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made ...
... seems ) that this very question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made ...
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... seem very numerous in books and manufactures . But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known ; not in the number of axioms . VIII . Moreover the works already known are due to chance ...
... seem very numerous in books and manufactures . But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known ; not in the number of axioms . VIII . Moreover the works already known are due to chance ...
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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.