The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... follows that this inquiry must be made through the medium of induction , and the essential merit of Bacon lies in framing a system of rules by which this ascending scale of inference may be secured from error . As the neglect of this ...
... follows that this inquiry must be made through the medium of induction , and the essential merit of Bacon lies in framing a system of rules by which this ascending scale of inference may be secured from error . As the neglect of this ...
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... follow . Our natural history is not designed so much to please by its variety , or benefit by gainful experiments , as to afford light to the discovery of causes , and hold out the breasts to philosophy ; for though we principally ...
... follow . Our natural history is not designed so much to please by its variety , or benefit by gainful experiments , as to afford light to the discovery of causes , and hold out the breasts to philosophy ; for though we principally ...
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... follow its own impulses . But your Majesty's eloquence is indeed royal , streaming and branching out in nature's fashion as from a fountain , copious and elegant , original and inimit- able . And as in those things which concern your ...
... follow its own impulses . But your Majesty's eloquence is indeed royal , streaming and branching out in nature's fashion as from a fountain , copious and elegant , original and inimit- able . And as in those things which concern your ...
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... follow . " r So Seneca , after consecrating the five years o . Nero's minority to the immortal glory of learned governors , held on his honest course of good counsel after his master grew extremely corrupt . Nor can this be otherwise ...
... follow . " r So Seneca , after consecrating the five years o . Nero's minority to the immortal glory of learned governors , held on his honest course of good counsel after his master grew extremely corrupt . Nor can this be otherwise ...
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... follow , partaking of the nature of such beginnings , like waters after a tempest , full of workings and swellings , though without boisterous storms , being well navi- gated by the wisdom of the pilot , one of the most able of his ...
... follow , partaking of the nature of such beginnings , like waters after a tempest , full of workings and swellings , though without boisterous storms , being well navi- gated by the wisdom of the pilot , one of the most able of his ...
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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...