The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... METHOD WHICH HE DETERMINED WITHIN HIMSELF , AND WHICH HE THOUGHT IT CONCERNED THE LIVING AND POSTERITY TO KNOW . BEING convinced , by a careful observation , that the human understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and ...
... METHOD WHICH HE DETERMINED WITHIN HIMSELF , AND WHICH HE THOUGHT IT CONCERNED THE LIVING AND POSTERITY TO KNOW . BEING convinced , by a careful observation , that the human understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and ...
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... method , renders himself acceptable and famous , he in appearance erects an art , but in reality corrupts the labours of his predecessors . This , however , is usually well received by posterity , as readily gratifying their curiosity ...
... method , renders himself acceptable and famous , he in appearance erects an art , but in reality corrupts the labours of his predecessors . This , however , is usually well received by posterity , as readily gratifying their curiosity ...
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... method of 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 ...
... method of 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 ...
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... method is to begin all anew , and direct our steps in a certain order , from the very first perceptions of the senses . Yet I must not be understood to say that nothing has been done in former ages , for the ancients have shown ...
... method is to begin all anew , and direct our steps in a certain order , from the very first perceptions of the senses . Yet I must not be understood to say that nothing has been done in former ages , for the ancients have shown ...
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... method is continually to dwell among things soberly , without abstracting or setting the understanding farther from them than makes their images meet ; which leaves but little work for genius and mental abilities . And the same humility ...
... method is continually to dwell among things soberly , without abstracting or setting the understanding farther from them than makes their images meet ; which leaves but little work for genius and mental abilities . And the same humility ...
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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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