The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... animals ; and that others with greater diligence , though less pretence , have made many additions ; while others , again , have compiled copious histories and de- scriptions of metals , plants , and fossils ; it seems that he does not ...
... animals ; and that others with greater diligence , though less pretence , have made many additions ; while others , again , have compiled copious histories and de- scriptions of metals , plants , and fossils ; it seems that he does not ...
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... animal instinct and the like , in which inventions have hitherto had their origin . CIX . Another argument of hope may be drawn from this , —that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could ...
... animal instinct and the like , in which inventions have hitherto had their origin . CIX . Another argument of hope may be drawn from this , —that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could ...
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... animals , from coition to birth ; and in like manner of other bodies . It is not however only to the generations of bodies that this investigation extends , but also to other motions and operations of nature . As , for instance , when ...
... animals , from coition to birth ; and in like manner of other bodies . It is not however only to the generations of bodies that this investigation extends , but also to other motions and operations of nature . As , for instance , when ...
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... animals ) some pains have been well bestowed and with good effect ; and a subtle thing it seems to be , and a good scrutiny of nature . Yet this kind of anatomy is subject to sight and sense , and has place only in organised bodies ...
... animals ) some pains have been well bestowed and with good effect ; and a subtle thing it seems to be , and a good scrutiny of nature . Yet this kind of anatomy is subject to sight and sense , and has place only in organised bodies ...
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... animals , as the root , the leaf , the flower , flesh , blood , and bones . But even in this kind , human industry has not been altogether wanting ; for this is the very thing aimed at in the separation of bodies of uniform structure by ...
... animals , as the root , the leaf , the flower , flesh , blood , and bones . But even in this kind , human industry has not been altogether wanting ; for this is the very thing aimed at in the separation of bodies of uniform structure by ...
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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.