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... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
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... truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and ...
... truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and ...
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... truth , the obscurity of 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 ...
... truth , the obscurity of 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 ...
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... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
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... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
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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.