The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... tion with which our existing stock of inventions is regarded be in the very entrance and threshold of the work , and that frankly and without circumlocution , stripped off , and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of ...
... tion with which our existing stock of inventions is regarded be in the very entrance and threshold of the work , and that frankly and without circumlocution , stripped off , and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of ...
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... tion , when they should produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them ...
... tion , when they should produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them ...
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... tion were nothing more than an exercise 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 ...
... tion were nothing more than an exercise 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 ...
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... tion . Whereas of the sciences which regard nature , the divine . philosopher declares that " it is the glory of God to conceal a thing , but it is the glory of the King to find a thing out . " Even as though the divine nature took ...
... tion . Whereas of the sciences which regard nature , the divine . philosopher declares that " it is the glory of God to conceal a thing , but it is the glory of the King to find a thing out . " Even as though the divine nature took ...
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... tion of Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New ...
... tion of Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New ...
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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.