The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 60
Página 23
... simple title or a concise argument of that which is wanted . For as often as I have occasion to report anything as deficient , the nature of which is at all obscure , so that men may not perhaps easily understand what I mean or what the ...
... simple title or a concise argument of that which is wanted . For as often as I have occasion to report anything as deficient , the nature of which is at all obscure , so that men may not perhaps easily understand what I mean or what the ...
Página 25
... simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account only what is known and ordinary ; and leads to no result . Now what the sciences stand in ...
... simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account only what is known and ordinary ; and leads to no result . Now what the sciences stand in ...
Página 39
... simple assurance or professional affectation , have therein done philosophy and the sciences great injury . For as they have been successful in inducing belief , so they have been effective in quenching and stopping inquiry ; and have ...
... simple assurance or professional affectation , have therein done philosophy and the sciences great injury . For as they have been successful in inducing belief , so they have been effective in quenching and stopping inquiry ; and have ...
Página 40
... simple sensuous perception . The necessity of this was felt no doubt by those who attributed so much importance to Logic ; showing thereby that they were in search of helps for the understanding , and had no confidence in the native and ...
... simple sensuous perception . The necessity of this was felt no doubt by those who attributed so much importance to Logic ; showing thereby that they were in search of helps for the understanding , and had no confidence in the native and ...
Página 56
... simple notions also . XLVI . The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ( either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself ) draws all things else to support and agree with it . And though there be a ...
... simple notions also . XLVI . The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ( either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself ) draws all things else to support and agree with it . And though there be a ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action ancient animals Aristotle authority axioms better burning-glass causes CHAP Cicero cold colour common configurations crown 8vo Democritus diligence discourse discovered discovery diurnal motion divine Division doctrine concerning earth Edinburgh Review errors especially example experiments Fingerpost fire flame glass greater hand heat heaven heavenly bodies History of Earth honour human Idols induction inquiry invention iron judgment kind knowledge labour Lastly learning less let the nature light likewise logic magnet manner matter means medicine memory men's ment method mind morocco motion namely Natural History natural philosophy nature in question object observed operation opinion particular Physic plants Plato Poesy Post 8vo Prerogative Instances Promptuary quicksilver reason received regard sciences sense Sophism soul speak spirit of wine substances subtlety syllogism thought tion touch true truth understanding virtue vols whereas whereof wood Woodcuts words
Pasajes populares
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.