The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... called forth the just censures of Bacon and his friends . The version of Eustace Cary is no less unfor- tunate , owing to its poverty of diction , and antiquated phraseology . Under the public sense of these failures , ano- ther ...
... called forth the just censures of Bacon and his friends . The version of Eustace Cary is no less unfor- tunate , owing to its poverty of diction , and antiquated phraseology . Under the public sense of these failures , ano- ther ...
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... called in question . DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK . IN SIX PARTS . 1. Survey and Extension of the Sciences ; or , the Advancement of Learning . 2. Novum Organum ; or , Precepts for the Interpretation of Nature . 3. Phenomena of the Universe ...
... called in question . DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK . IN SIX PARTS . 1. Survey and Extension of the Sciences ; or , the Advancement of Learning . 2. Novum Organum ; or , Precepts for the Interpretation of Nature . 3. Phenomena of the Universe ...
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... called The Art of interpreting Nature ; as differing widely from the common logic , which , however , pretends to assist and direct the understanding , and in that they agree : but the difference betwixt them consists in three things ...
... called The Art of interpreting Nature ; as differing widely from the common logic , which , however , pretends to assist and direct the understanding , and in that they agree : but the difference betwixt them consists in three things ...
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... called reasons of state , yet they are perfect in the plain grounds of religion , justice , honour , and moral virtue , which , if well pursued , there will be as little use of reasons of state , as of physic in a healthy constitution ...
... called reasons of state , yet they are perfect in the plain grounds of religion , justice , honour , and moral virtue , which , if well pursued , there will be as little use of reasons of state , as of physic in a healthy constitution ...
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... called Cynics who , like Diogenes , rather barked than declaimed against the vices and the manners of their age . Ed . Du Bartas Bethulian's Rescue , b . v . translated by Sylvester . rather to be censured than defended . Yet the ...
... called Cynics who , like Diogenes , rather barked than declaimed against the vices and the manners of their age . Ed . Du Bartas Bethulian's Rescue , b . v . translated by Sylvester . rather to be censured than defended . Yet 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.
Page 4 - Conquest of Granada and Conquest of Spain. Vols. 6 and 7. Life of Columbus and Companions of Columbus, with a new Index. Fine Portrait. Vol. 8. Astoria and Tour in the Prairies. Vol. 9. Mahomet and his Successors. Vol. 10. Conquest of Florida and Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
Page 95 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...