The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... Aristotle's scholar in philo- sophy , and the other Cicero's rival in eloquence ; and again , Epaminondas and Xenophon , the one whereof first abated the power of Sparta , and the other first paved the way for subverting the Persian ...
... Aristotle's scholar in philo- sophy , and the other Cicero's rival in eloquence ; and again , Epaminondas and Xenophon , the one whereof first abated the power of Sparta , and the other first paved the way for subverting the Persian ...
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... Aristotle is here worthy our observation , who , having compiled an exact history of animals , dashed it very sparingly with fable or fiction , throwing all strange reports which he n Tacit . Hist . b . i . 51 . Diog . Laert . iii . 18 ...
... Aristotle is here worthy our observation , who , having compiled an exact history of animals , dashed it very sparingly with fable or fiction , throwing all strange reports which he n Tacit . Hist . b . i . 51 . Diog . Laert . iii . 18 ...
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... Aristotle will at most rise no higher again than the knowledge of Aristotle . And therefore , though a scholar must have faith in his master , yet a man well instructed must judge for him- self ; for learners owe to their masters only a ...
... Aristotle will at most rise no higher again than the knowledge of Aristotle . And therefore , though a scholar must have faith in his master , yet a man well instructed must judge for him- self ; for learners owe to their masters only a ...
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... Aristotle with logic ; Proclus with mathematics ; Text Empir . against St. Math . vii . 133 . " If it is true that God is the great spring of motion in the universe , as the theory of moving forces is a part of mechanics and mechanics a ...
... Aristotle with logic ; Proclus with mathematics ; Text Empir . against St. Math . vii . 133 . " If it is true that God is the great spring of motion in the universe , as the theory of moving forces is a part of mechanics and mechanics a ...
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... Aristotle says well : " Those who take in but a few considerations easily decide . " y Another error is , an impatience of doubting and a blind hurry of asserting without a mature suspension of judgment . For the two ways of ...
... Aristotle says well : " Those who take in but a few considerations easily decide . " y Another error is , an impatience of doubting and a blind hurry of asserting without a mature suspension of judgment . For the two ways of ...
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Page 418 - The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man ; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembles those uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
Page 53 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets. Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Page 174 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 43 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
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Page 95 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...