The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... produces knowledge , though , with regard to him , not perfect knowledge , but wonder , which is broken knowledge . It may , therefore , be properly said , " That the sense resembles the sun , which shows the terrestrial globe , but ...
... produces knowledge , though , with regard to him , not perfect knowledge , but wonder , which is broken knowledge . It may , therefore , be properly said , " That the sense resembles the sun , which shows the terrestrial globe , but ...
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... produces cobwebs of learning , admirable indeed for the fineness of the thread , but of no substance or profit.k b Since the establishment of the French Academy , a studied plainness and simplicity of style begins to prevail in that ...
... produces cobwebs of learning , admirable indeed for the fineness of the thread , but of no substance or profit.k b Since the establishment of the French Academy , a studied plainness and simplicity of style begins to prevail in that ...
Page 47
... produce and integrity of Aristotle is here worthy our observation , who , having compiled an exact history of animals , dashed it very sparingly with fable or fiction , throwing all strange reports which he = Diog . Laert . iii . 18 ...
... produce and integrity of Aristotle is here worthy our observation , who , having compiled an exact history of animals , dashed it very sparingly with fable or fiction , throwing all strange reports which he = Diog . Laert . iii . 18 ...
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... produce these effects are , both in theory and practice , full of error and vanity , and besides , are seldom ... produced what we now call the black phosphorus , a powder which readily takes fire and burns like a coal in the open ...
... produce these effects are , both in theory and practice , full of error and vanity , and besides , are seldom ... produced what we now call the black phosphorus , a powder which readily takes fire and burns like a coal in the open ...
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... produced , and controlled by the force of laws externally impressed upon them . Hence their theory of moving forces is incomplete , as they do not take the prime mover into account , or supply us , in case of denying him , with the ...
... produced , and controlled by the force of laws externally impressed upon them . Hence their theory of moving forces is incomplete , as they do not take the prime mover into account , or supply us , in case of denying him , with the ...
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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...