The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord BaconH. G. Bohn, 1858 - 567 pages |
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... imagination of plenty is among the principal causes of want , and as too great a confidence in things present leads to a neglect of the future , it is necessary we should here admonish mankind that they do not too highly value or extol ...
... imagination of plenty is among the principal causes of want , and as too great a confidence in things present leads to a neglect of the future , it is necessary we should here admonish mankind that they do not too highly value or extol ...
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... imagining our project for a grand restoration , or advancement of all kinds of knowledge , infinitely beyond the power of mortals to execute ; whilst in reality , it is the genuine stop and prevention of infinite error . Indeed , as our ...
... imagining our project for a grand restoration , or advancement of all kinds of knowledge , infinitely beyond the power of mortals to execute ; whilst in reality , it is the genuine stop and prevention of infinite error . Indeed , as our ...
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... Imagination , and Reason . The same Distribution applies to Theology . CHAPTER II . History divided into Natural and Civil ; -Civil subdivided into Eccle- siastical and Literary . The Division of Natural History , according to the ...
... Imagination , and Reason . The same Distribution applies to Theology . CHAPTER II . History divided into Natural and Civil ; -Civil subdivided into Eccle- siastical and Literary . The Division of Natural History , according to the ...
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... imaginations , or effeminate learning , contentious learning , and fantastical learning . The first disease , which consists in a luxuriancy of style , has been anciently esteemed at different times , but strangely a Laert . Life Diog ...
... imaginations , or effeminate learning , contentious learning , and fantastical learning . The first disease , which consists in a luxuriancy of style , has been anciently esteemed at different times , but strangely a Laert . Life Diog ...
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... imagination more than the reason , are principally three ; viz . , astrology , natural magic , and alchemy ; the ends or preten- sions whereof are however noble . For astrology pretends to discover the influence of the superior upon the ...
... imagination more than the reason , are principally three ; viz . , astrology , natural magic , and alchemy ; the ends or preten- sions whereof are however noble . For astrology pretends to discover the influence of the superior upon the ...
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