The Works of Francis BaconLongmans, 1870 |
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... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
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... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
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... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that 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 ...
... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that 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 ...
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... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
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... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
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