Physical and Metaphysical Works: Including the Advancement of Learning and Novum OrganumBell & Daldy, 1868 - 567 pages |
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... discovered ; for , by closely in- specting the multiplicity of books upon arts and sciences , we find them to contain numberless repetitions of the same things in point of invention , but differing indeed as to the manner of treatment ...
... discovered ; for , by closely in- specting the multiplicity of books upon arts and sciences , we find them to contain numberless repetitions of the same things in point of invention , but differing indeed as to the manner of treatment ...
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... discovered and completed ; whereas , in reality , this registering of the sciences proceeds only from the assurance of a few and the sloth and ignorance of many . For after the sciences might thus perhaps in several parts be carefully ...
... discovered and completed ; whereas , in reality , this registering of the sciences proceeds only from the assurance of a few and the sloth and ignorance of many . For after the sciences might thus perhaps in several parts be carefully ...
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... discovery of causes , and hold out the beasts to philosophy ; for though we principally regard works , and the active ... discovered by the torturings of art , than when they are left to themselves . Nor is it only a his tory of bodies ...
... discovery of causes , and hold out the beasts to philosophy ; for though we principally regard works , and the active ... discovered by the torturings of art , than when they are left to themselves . Nor is it only a his tory of bodies ...
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... discovery is well made , they should stand no longer , but proceed with cheerfulness . And to speak the 64 Jeremiah vi . 16 . truth antiquity , as we call it , is the BOOK I. ] UNREASONABLE DEFERENCE TO GREAT NAMES . 49.
... discovery is well made , they should stand no longer , but proceed with cheerfulness . And to speak the 64 Jeremiah vi . 16 . truth antiquity , as we call it , is the BOOK I. ] UNREASONABLE DEFERENCE TO GREAT NAMES . 49.
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... discovered in later times that was not hit upon before ; as if Lucian's objection against the gods lay also against ... discovery of the West Indies . But this happens much more frequently in intellectual matters , as we see in most of ...
... discovered in later times that was not hit upon before ; as if Lucian's objection against the gods lay also against ... discovery of the West Indies . But this happens much more frequently in intellectual matters , as we see in most of ...
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