The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... ancient authors , and indeed of all , re- mains untouched ; since the comparison I challenge is not of wits or faculties , but of ways and methods , and the part I take upon myself is not that of a judge , but of a guide . XXXIII . This ...
... ancient authors , and indeed of all , re- mains untouched ; since the comparison I challenge is not of wits or faculties , but of ways and methods , and the part I take upon myself is not that of a judge , but of a guide . XXXIII . This ...
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... ancient sects and philo- sophies , that I speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part ...
... ancient sects and philo- sophies , that I speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part ...
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... ancients untouched . For they are no wise disparaged- the question between them and me being only as to the way . For as the saying is , the lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one . Nay it is ...
... ancients untouched . For they are no wise disparaged- the question between them and me being only as to the way . For as the saying is , the lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one . Nay it is ...
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... ancient rhetoricians , Gorgias , Protagoras , Hippias , Polus , does indeed suit the entire class , Plato , Aristotle , Zeno , Epicurus , Theophrastus , and their successors Chrysippus , Carnades , and the rest . There was this ...
... ancient rhetoricians , Gorgias , Protagoras , Hippias , Polus , does indeed suit the entire class , Plato , Aristotle , Zeno , Epicurus , Theophrastus , and their successors Chrysippus , Carnades , and the rest . There was this ...
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... ancients lived ; and which , though in respect of us it was the elder , yet in respect of the world it was the younger . And ... ancient times , inasmuch as it is a more advanced age of the world , and stored and stocked with infinite ...
... ancients lived ; and which , though in respect of us it was the elder , yet in respect of the world it was the younger . And ... ancient times , inasmuch as it is a more advanced age of the world , and stored and stocked with infinite ...
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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 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. 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 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.