The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... turn of expression which is neatest and clearest in the one is apt to be awkward and obscure in the other , and the translator must make his choice between a close version which shall not be readable , and a readable version which shall ...
... turn of expression which is neatest and clearest in the one is apt to be awkward and obscure in the other , and the translator must make his choice between a close version which shall not be readable , and a readable version which shall ...
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... turn to something else , than they arrive at the ultimate perfection of which they are capable . Philosophy and the intellectual sciences , on the contrary , stand like statues , worshipped and celebrated , but not moved or advanced ...
... turn to something else , than they arrive at the ultimate perfection of which they are capable . Philosophy and the intellectual sciences , on the contrary , stand like statues , worshipped and celebrated , but not moved or advanced ...
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... turn to the great detriment of the sciences . For it is hardly possible at once to admire an author and to go beyond him ; knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore ...
... turn to the great detriment of the sciences . For it is hardly possible at once to admire an author and to go beyond him ; knowledge being as water , which will not rise above the level from which it fell . Men of this kind , therefore ...
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... turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old continent . or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ...
... turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old continent . or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ...
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... 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 within the limits of duty in respect of things divine ...
... 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 within the limits of duty in respect of things divine ...
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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.