The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen8Hurd and Houghton, 1872 |
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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 suspi- cions concerning 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 suspi- cions concerning matters long established , should have come ...
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... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing PREFACE . 27.
... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing PREFACE . 27.
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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 demon- strations ...
... 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 demon- strations ...
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... truth , I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways , and relying on the divine assistance have upheld my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own ...
... truth , I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways , and relying on the divine assistance have upheld my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own ...
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