The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... taken pains to make them substantially accurate , and have never wittingly allowed a sentence to stand in which the meaning seemed to me to be misrepresented , I have not hesitated on the other hand to vary the form of expression ...
... taken pains to make them substantially accurate , and have never wittingly allowed a sentence to stand in which the meaning seemed to me to be misrepresented , I have not hesitated on the other hand to vary the form of expression ...
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... taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the ...
... taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the ...
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... taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human wit , but with reverence in the greater world . But it is the empty things that are vast : things solid are most contracted ...
... taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human wit , but with reverence in the greater world . But it is the empty things that are vast : things solid are most contracted ...
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... taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its ...
... taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its ...
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... taken by the intellect when left to go its own way , but I hold it for sus- pected , and no way established , until it has submitted to a new trial and a fresh judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the ...
... taken by the intellect when left to go its own way , but I hold it for sus- pected , and no way established , until it has submitted to a new trial and a fresh judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the ...
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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.