The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... observe in teaching , without endeavouring to stamp a dignity on any of our inventions , by the triumphs of confutation ... observed , and separated , before they con- siderably infect the mass of knowledge ; and our labours be the more ...
... observe in teaching , without endeavouring to stamp a dignity on any of our inventions , by the triumphs of confutation ... observed , and separated , before they con- siderably infect the mass of knowledge ; and our labours be the more ...
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... observed how far experiments and history distract the mind ; and how difficult it is , especially for tender or prejudiced persons , to converse with nature from the beginning , we shall continually subjoin our observations , as so many ...
... observed how far experiments and history distract the mind ; and how difficult it is , especially for tender or prejudiced persons , to converse with nature from the beginning , we shall continually subjoin our observations , as so many ...
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... observed of the order , the works and mind of nature , and can proceed no farther ; for no power is able to loose or break the chain of causes , nor is nature to be conquered but by submission : whence those twin intentions , human ...
... observed of the order , the works and mind of nature , and can proceed no farther ; for no power is able to loose or break the chain of causes , nor is nature to be conquered but by submission : whence those twin intentions , human ...
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... observed with sobriety . But here we are not to seek it by the name of learning ; for all learning is knowledge ... observe that , for anything mentioned in the history of the creation , the confused mass of the heavens and earth was ...
... observed with sobriety . But here we are not to seek it by the name of learning ; for all learning is knowledge ... observe that , for anything mentioned in the history of the creation , the confused mass of the heavens and earth was ...
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... observed a natural and some of them a moral sense in many of the rites and ceremonies . Thus in the law of the leprosy , where it is said , " If the whiteness have overspread the flesh , the patient may pass abroad for clean ; but if ...
... observed a natural and some of them a moral sense in many of the rites and ceremonies . Thus in the law of the leprosy , where it is said , " If the whiteness have overspread the flesh , the patient may pass abroad for clean ; but if ...
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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...