The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... earth , but shuts up that of the heavens and again , that they run not into the contrary extreme , which they certainly will do , if they think an inquiry into nature any way forbid them by religion . It was not that pure and unspotted ...
... earth , but shuts up that of the heavens and again , that they run not into the contrary extreme , which they certainly will do , if they think an inquiry into nature any way forbid them by religion . It was not that pure and unspotted ...
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... Earth and Sea , the History of Massive or Collective Bodies , and the History of Species . CHAPTER IV . Civil History divided into Ecclesiastical and Literary . Deficiency of the latter . The absence of Precepts for its compilation ...
... Earth and Sea , the History of Massive or Collective Bodies , and the History of Species . CHAPTER IV . Civil History divided into Ecclesiastical and Literary . Deficiency of the latter . The absence of Precepts for its compilation ...
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... earth : a that is , to leave natural philosophy behind , and apply knowledge only to morality and policy : but as both heaven and earth con- tribute to the use and benefit of man , so the end ought to be , from both philosophies , to ...
... earth : a that is , to leave natural philosophy behind , and apply knowledge only to morality and policy : but as both heaven and earth con- tribute to the use and benefit of man , so the end ought to be , from both philosophies , to ...
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... earth , " as it is of the subsequent works ; but actually , that " God made heaven and earth ; " the one carrying the style of a manufacture , the other that of a law , decree , or counsel . To proceed from God to spirits . We find , as ...
... earth , " as it is of the subsequent works ; but actually , that " God made heaven and earth ; " the one carrying the style of a manufacture , the other that of a law , decree , or counsel . To proceed from God to spirits . We find , as ...
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... earth and the convexity of the heavens are manifestly alluded to . Again , " Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos , et obstetricante manu ejus eductus est coluber tortu- osus ; " and in another place , " Numquid conjungere valebis micantes ...
... earth and the convexity of the heavens are manifestly alluded to . Again , " Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos , et obstetricante manu ejus eductus est coluber tortu- osus ; " and in another place , " Numquid conjungere valebis micantes ...
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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...