The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the fourth ) had been carried through on that plan , when an engagement on the Continent made it impos- sible for him to superintend ...
... thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the fourth ) had been carried through on that plan , when an engagement on the Continent made it impos- sible for him to superintend ...
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... thought that the meaning could thereby be conveyed more clearly . In numberless cases indeed this has been done , I may say , on Bacon's own authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own ...
... thought that the meaning could thereby be conveyed more clearly . In numberless cases indeed this has been done , I may say , on Bacon's own authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own ...
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... THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which ... thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is ...
... THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which ... thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is ...
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... thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the facts of nature , with- draw my intellect from them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays of ...
... thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the facts of nature , with- draw my intellect from them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays of ...
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... thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that which we have to be as much an object as the ...
... thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that which we have to be as much an object as 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.