The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... separate Works , see Cheap Series , p . 15 . Joyce's Introduction to the Arts and With Examination Questions . Sciences . 3s . 6d . Lawrence's Lectures on Compara- tive Anatomy , Physiology , Zoology , and the Natural History of Man ...
... separate Works , see Cheap Series , p . 15 . Joyce's Introduction to the Arts and With Examination Questions . Sciences . 3s . 6d . Lawrence's Lectures on Compara- tive Anatomy , Physiology , Zoology , and the Natural History of Man ...
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... separate , adjust , and verify experience , and come to a necessary determination by proper exclusions and rejections . Nor is this all ; for we likewise lay the foundations of the sciences stronger and closer , and begin our inquiries ...
... separate , adjust , and verify experience , and come to a necessary determination by proper exclusions and rejections . Nor is this all ; for we likewise lay the foundations of the sciences stronger and closer , and begin our inquiries ...
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... separate such as are illusory from the real , and to construct out of the latter a series of axioms , expressing in hierarchical gradation the general system of laws by which the universe is governed . Ed . • The doctrine of the two ...
... separate such as are illusory from the real , and to construct out of the latter a series of axioms , expressing in hierarchical gradation the general system of laws by which the universe is governed . Ed . • The doctrine of the two ...
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... and sifting , as a last remedy , that mends not the matter one jot , nor separates the errors . Whence there are absolutely no hopes of enlarging and promoting the sciences , without rebuilding 18 THE GREAT INSTAURATION .
... and sifting , as a last remedy , that mends not the matter one jot , nor separates the errors . Whence there are absolutely no hopes of enlarging and promoting the sciences , without rebuilding 18 THE GREAT INSTAURATION .
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... that they should be kept separate , as will more fully appear hereafter , when he comes to treat of theology . Shaw . Plutarch in M. Cato . 3 letters , the pre - eminence in which , he 32 [ BOOKI ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING .
... that they should be kept separate , as will more fully appear hereafter , when he comes to treat of theology . Shaw . Plutarch in M. Cato . 3 letters , the pre - eminence in which , he 32 [ BOOKI ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING .
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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...