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... pass by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4 7.
... pass by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4 7.
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... pass which has been the case now for many ages - that they stand almost at a stay , without receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what ...
... pass which has been the case now for many ages - that they stand almost at a stay , without receiving any augmenta- tions worthy of the human race ; insomuch that many times not only what was asserted once is asserted still , but what ...
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... passing beyond . To the second part therefore belongs the doctrine concerning the better and more perfect use of human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con ...
... passing beyond . To the second part therefore belongs the doctrine concerning the better and more perfect use of human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con ...
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... pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt ...
... pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formula of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt ...
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... passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers have trodden , we may find a way at length into her inner chambers . And to make my meaning clearer and to fa- miliarise the thing by giving it a name , I have chosen to call one of ...
... passing by the outer courts of nature , which numbers have trodden , we may find a way at length into her inner chambers . And to make my meaning clearer and to fa- miliarise the thing by giving it a name , I have chosen to call one of ...
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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.