The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and accumulates ( and it is from them that all the rest flow ) are false , confused , and overhastily ...
... thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and accumulates ( and it is from them that all the rest flow ) are false , confused , and overhastily ...
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... things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of men and nature than upon ...
... things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of men and nature than upon ...
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... things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock . And for myself , if in anything I have been either too ...
... things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock . And for myself , if in anything I have been either too ...
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... things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but ...
... things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but ...
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... things that are vast : things solid are most contracted and lie in little room . And now I have only one favour more to ask ( else injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself ) -that men will consider well how far , upon ...
... things that are vast : things solid are most contracted and lie in little room . And now I have only one favour more to ask ( else injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself ) -that men will consider well how far , upon ...
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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.