SelectionsC. Scribner's sons, 1928 - 430 páginas |
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Página 65 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Página 91 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
Página 61 - And of the like nature was the answer which Aristippus made, when having a petition to Dionysius...
Página 94 - OF FRANCIS BACON OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING DIVINE AND HUMAN.
Página 278 - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Página 14 - I would address one general admonition to all ; that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that O ' they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or •fame, or power, or any of these inferior things ; but for the benefit and use of life ; and that they perfect and •govern it in chanty.
Página xxxvi - Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world'; for they disdain to spell and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works; and contrariwise by continual meditation and agitation of wit do urge and as it were inyocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.
Página 87 - Great, after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious provinces in Asia, when he received letters out of Greece, of some fights and services there, which were commonly for a passage, or a fort, or some walled town at the most, he said, " It seemed to him, that he was advertised of the battle of the frogs and the mice, that the old tales went of.
Página 383 - When I say of Motion that it is as the genus of which heat is a species, I would be understood to mean, not that heat generates motion or that motion generates heat (though both are true in certain cases), but that Heat itself, its essence and quiddity, is Motion and nothing else...
Página 281 - There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms.