The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... inquiry . And the greatest part of these have no considerable views , but esteem it a great matter if they can make a single dis- covery ; which is both a trifling and unskilful procedure , as no one can justly or successfully discover ...
... inquiry . And the greatest part of these have no considerable views , but esteem it a great matter if they can make a single dis- covery ; which is both a trifling and unskilful procedure , as no one can justly or successfully discover ...
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... inquiry into nature any way forbid them by religion . It was not that pure and unspotted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to things , agreeable to their natures , which caused his fall ; but an ambitious and authoritative ...
... inquiry into nature any way forbid them by religion . It was not that pure and unspotted natural knowledge whereby Adam gave names to things , agreeable to their natures , which caused his fall ; but an ambitious and authoritative ...
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... inquiry . The end of our new logic is to find , not arguments , but arts ; not what agrees with principles , but principles them- selves : not probable reasons , but plans and designs of works- a different intention producing a ...
... inquiry . The end of our new logic is to find , not arguments , but arts ; not what agrees with principles , but principles them- selves : not probable reasons , but plans and designs of works- a different intention producing a ...
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... 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 important prelimi ...
... 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 important prelimi ...
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... inquiry and investigation , according to our own method , in certain subjects of the noblest kind , but greatly differing from each other , that a specimen may be had of every sort . By these examples we mean not illustrations of rules ...
... inquiry and investigation , according to our own method , in certain subjects of the noblest kind , but greatly differing from each other , that a specimen may be had of every sort . By these examples we mean not illustrations of rules ...
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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...