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... understanding his own English . The selection of the works to be translated was made by Mr. Ellis , as including all that are necessary to give a com- plete view of Bacon's philosophical opinions . J. S. TRANSLATIONS OF THE ...
... understanding his own English . The selection of the works to be translated was made by Mr. Ellis , as including all that are necessary to give a com- plete view of Bacon's philosophical opinions . J. S. TRANSLATIONS OF THE ...
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... understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and ...
... understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and ...
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... understanding en- tirely different from any hitherto known , and other helps provided , in order that the mind may exercise over the nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly ...
... understanding en- tirely different from any hitherto known , and other helps provided , in order that the mind may exercise over the nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly ...
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... understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on every side so many ambiguities of way , such deceitful resemblances of objects and signs , natures so irregular in their lines , and so knotted and entangled . And then ...
... understanding is framed like a labyrinth ; presenting as it does on every side so many ambiguities of way , such deceitful resemblances of objects and signs , natures so irregular in their lines , and so knotted and entangled . And then ...
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... understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged ...
... understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged ...
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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.