The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longman, 1858 |
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... less arbitrary and inconstant ; whence it follows that the entire fabric of human reason which we employ in the inquisition of nature , is badly put together and built up , and like some mag- nificent structure without any foundation ...
... less arbitrary and inconstant ; whence it follows that the entire fabric of human reason which we employ in the inquisition of nature , is badly put together and built up , and like some mag- nificent structure without any foundation ...
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... less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither the births nor the miscarriages of Time are entered in our records . Nor , secondly , is the consent itself and the time it has con- tinued a ...
... less , all that has been by private persons secretly attempted and stirred ; so neither the births nor the miscarriages of Time are entered in our records . Nor , secondly , is the consent itself and the time it has con- tinued a ...
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... less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to ...
... less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is faith's . Lastly , that knowledge being now discharged of that venom which the serpent infused into it , and which makes the mind of man to ...
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... less follow up their object and engage with Nature ; think- ing ( it seems ) that this very question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , - was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely ...
... less follow up their object and engage with Nature ; think- ing ( it seems ) that this very question , viz . whether or no anything can be known , - was to be settled not by arguing , but by trying . And yet they too , trusting entirely ...
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... less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas- tical and ill defined . XVI . Our notions of less general species ...
... less are Heavy , Light , Dense , Rare , Moist , Dry , Generation , Corruption , Attraction , Repul- sion , Element , Matter , Form , and the like ; but all are fantas- tical and ill defined . XVI . Our notions of less general species ...
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Página 93 - 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 56 - The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects; in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
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 47 - Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand.
Página 396 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Página 21 - I am labouring to lay the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human utility and power.
Página 497 - Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review. By the Right Hon. Lord MACAULAY. CHEAP EDITION, crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. STUDENT'S EDITION, crown 8vo. 6s. PEOPLE'S EDITION, 2 vols. crown 8vo. 8s. CABINET EDITION, 4 vols. 24>-.
Página 104 - But for my part I do not trouble myself with any such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary, is to try whether I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man.
Página 317 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Página 59 - The Idols of the Cave take their rise in the peculiar constitution, mental or bodily, of each individual; and also in education, habit, and accident. Of this kind there is a great number and variety ; but I will instance those the pointing out of which contains the most important caution, and which have most effect in disturbing the clearness of the understanding.