The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... action . But here , by use and action , we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre , for that diverts the advance- ment of knowledge , as the golden ball thrown before Atalanta , which , while she stoops to take up , the race is ...
... action . But here , by use and action , we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre , for that diverts the advance- ment of knowledge , as the golden ball thrown before Atalanta , which , while she stoops to take up , the race is ...
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... and the lively images of actions and persons , expressed in the greatest propriety of diction and perspicuity of narration . That this • ὁλοπόρφυρος . Apon Reg . et Imp . excellence of style was not the effect of undisciplined talent.
... and the lively images of actions and persons , expressed in the greatest propriety of diction and perspicuity of narration . That this • ὁλοπόρφυρος . Apon Reg . et Imp . excellence of style was not the effect of undisciplined talent.
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... actions and opinions in succeeding ages . If , therefore , the invention of a ship was thought so noble , which carries com- modities from place to place and consociateth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits , how much ...
... actions and opinions in succeeding ages . If , therefore , the invention of a ship was thought so noble , which carries com- modities from place to place and consociateth the remotest regions in participation of their fruits , how much ...
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... action , yet by reposing too confidently in this opinion , they are apt to fall into the error of the ancient fable , which represented the members of the body at war with the stomach , because it alone , of all the parts of the frame ...
... action , yet by reposing too confidently in this opinion , they are apt to fall into the error of the ancient fable , which represented the members of the body at war with the stomach , because it alone , of all the parts of the frame ...
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... adapted to the life of action , rather pervert than f Sylva de Orat . iii . 26 ; Supellex Orat . xxiv . discipline the mind . This defect is sooner discovered by CHAP . I. ] DEFECTIVE TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITIES . 75.
... adapted to the life of action , rather pervert than f Sylva de Orat . iii . 26 ; Supellex Orat . xxiv . discipline the mind . This defect is sooner discovered by CHAP . I. ] DEFECTIVE TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITIES . 75.
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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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