The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed to the infinite mercy and goodness of God , and to the felicity of your Majesty's times ; to which as I have been an honest and affectionate ...
... speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed to the infinite mercy and goodness of God , and to the felicity of your Majesty's times ; to which as I have been an honest and affectionate ...
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... speak , which proceeds by 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 ...
... speak , which proceeds by 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 ...
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... speak of subtlety : I seek out and get together a kind of experiments much subtler and simpler than those which occur accidentally . For I drag into light many things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way to ...
... speak of subtlety : I seek out and get together a kind of experiments much subtler and simpler than those which occur accidentally . For I drag into light many things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way to ...
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... speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models , by which the entire process of ...
... speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models , by which the entire process of ...
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... speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike . Neither again do I mean this only ...
... speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike . Neither again do I mean this only ...
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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.