The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... better assistance to begin the work anew , and raise or re- build the sciences , arts , and all human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme , unequal to human abilities , yet it will be found ...
... better assistance to begin the work anew , and raise or re- build the sciences , arts , and all human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme , unequal to human abilities , yet it will be found ...
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... better can afterwards be invented , men need but cultivate and set off what is thus discovered and completed ; whereas , in reality , this registering of the sciences proceeds only from the assurance of a few and the sloth and ignorance ...
... better can afterwards be invented , men need but cultivate and set off what is thus discovered and completed ; whereas , in reality , this registering of the sciences proceeds only from the assurance of a few and the sloth and ignorance ...
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... better and more perfect application of the human mind should be introduced . This , however , is not to be understood as if nothing had been effected by the immense labours of so many past ages ; as the ancients have per- formed ...
... better and more perfect application of the human mind should be introduced . This , however , is not to be understood as if nothing had been effected by the immense labours of so many past ages ; as the ancients have per- formed ...
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... better discovered by the torturings of art , than when they are left to themselves . Nor is it only a his- tory of bodies that we would give ; but also of their cardinal virtues , or fundamental qualities ; as density , rarity , heat ...
... better discovered by the torturings of art , than when they are left to themselves . Nor is it only a his- tory of bodies that we would give ; but also of their cardinal virtues , or fundamental qualities ; as density , rarity , heat ...
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... better instances than Alexander and Cæsar , the one 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 ...
... better instances than Alexander and Cæsar , the one 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 ...
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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...