The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... mind and things . But as the mind , hastily and without choice , imbibes and treasures up the first notices of things , from whence all the rest proceed , errors must for ever prevail , and remain uncor- rected , either by the natural ...
... mind and things . But as the mind , hastily and without choice , imbibes and treasures up the first notices of things , from whence all the rest proceed , errors must for ever prevail , and remain uncor- rected , either by the natural ...
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... mind . For it is wiser to engage in an undertaking that admits of some termination , than to involve oneself in perpetual exertion and anxiety about what is interminable . The ways of contemplation , indeed , nearly correspond to two ...
... mind . For it is wiser to engage in an undertaking that admits of some termination , than to involve oneself in perpetual exertion and anxiety about what is interminable . The ways of contemplation , indeed , nearly correspond to two ...
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... mind should be introduced . This , however , is not to be understood as if nothing had been effected by the immense labours of so many past ages ; as the ancients have per- formed surprisingly in subjects that required abstract medi ...
... mind should be introduced . This , however , is not to be understood as if nothing had been effected by the immense labours of so many past ages ; as the ancients have per- formed surprisingly in subjects that required abstract medi ...
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... mind . Those who before us applied themselves to the discovery of arts , having just glanced upon things , examples , and experiments ; immediately , as if invention was but a kind of contemplation , raised up their own spirits to ...
... mind . Those who before us applied themselves to the discovery of arts , having just glanced upon things , examples , and experiments ; immediately , as if invention was but a kind of contemplation , raised up their own spirits to ...
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... mind , nothing of incredulity and blindness towards divine mysteries may arise ; but rather that the understanding , now cleared up , and purged of all vanity and superstition , may remain entirely subject to the divine oracles , and ...
... mind , nothing of incredulity and blindness towards divine mysteries may arise ; but rather that the understanding , now cleared up , and purged of all vanity and superstition , may remain entirely subject to the divine oracles , and ...
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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...