The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... laws but those of their own will . But for the sciences , which contemplate nature , the sacred philosopher declares , " It is the glory of God to conceal a thing , but the glory of a king to find it out . " As if the Divine Being thus ...
... laws but those of their own will . But for the sciences , which contemplate nature , the sacred philosopher declares , " It is the glory of God to conceal a thing , but the glory of a king to find it out . " As if the Divine Being thus ...
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... laws by which the universe is governed . Ed . • The doctrine of the two last paragraphs may appear contradictory to the opinion of some philosophers , who maintain the infallibility of To remedy this , we have from all quarters brought ...
... laws by which the universe is governed . Ed . • The doctrine of the two last paragraphs may appear contradictory to the opinion of some philosophers , who maintain the infallibility of To remedy this , we have from all quarters brought ...
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... laws of demonstration ; but the innate cleave to the nature of the understanding , which is found much more prone to error than the senses . For however men may amuse them- selves , and admire , or almost adore the mind , it is certain ...
... laws of demonstration ; but the innate cleave to the nature of the understanding , which is found much more prone to error than the senses . For however men may amuse them- selves , and admire , or almost adore the mind , it is certain ...
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... law , most excellent king , there were daily sacrifices and free oblations the one arising out of ritual observance , and the other from a pious generosity , so I deem that all faithful subjects owe their kings a double tribute of ...
... law , most excellent king , there were daily sacrifices and free oblations the one arising out of ritual observance , and the other from a pious generosity , so I deem that all faithful subjects owe their kings a double tribute of ...
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... law to himself , and depend no more upon God . 2. Nor can any quantity of natural know- ledge puff up the mind ; for ... laws they observe in their changes and altera- tions . And if such be the extent of the mind , there is no danger of ...
... law to himself , and depend no more upon God . 2. Nor can any quantity of natural know- ledge puff up the mind ; for ... laws they observe in their changes and altera- tions . And if such be the extent of the mind , there is no danger of ...
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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...