The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... universe to the eye of the human 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 ...
... universe to the eye of the human 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 ...
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... 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 Philosophy ; or Active Science . 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 Philosophy ; or Active Science . The ...
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... universe ; and it is a great error to assert that the sense is the measure of things . To meet these difficulties , I have sought on all sides dili- gently and faithfully to provide helps for the sense - substitutes to supply its ...
... universe ; and it is a great error to assert that the sense is the measure of things . To meet these difficulties , I have sought on all sides dili- gently and faithfully to provide helps for the sense - substitutes to supply its ...
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... Universe , the Divine Goodness assisting ; out of which marriage let us hope ( and be this the prayer of the bridal song ) there may spring helps to man , and a line and race of inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the ...
... Universe , the Divine Goodness assisting ; out of which marriage let us hope ( and be this the prayer of the bridal song ) there may spring helps to man , and a line and race of inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the ...
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... Universe ; that is to say , experience of every kind , and such a natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going ...
... Universe ; that is to say , experience of every kind , and such a natural history as may serve for a foundation to build philosophy upon . For a good method of demonstration or form of interpreting nature may keep the mind from going ...
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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.