 I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...  New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 431857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in...and discoveries, the best state of that province." A few years afterwards he sent these letters to Dr. Playfair, Lady Margaret's professor, to be translated... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, pkilanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...confutations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; I hope I should bring in...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philant hropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 624 pages
...confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in...curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, phitanthropia is so fixed in my -mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...and verbosities ; the other " with blind experiments, and auricular traditions " and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; " I hope I should bring...that province. " This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or " nature, or (if one take it favourably) Philantb.ro" pia, is so fixed in my mind, as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; I hope I should bring in...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Law - 1830 - 530 pages
...confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...and verbosities : ' the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and ' impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring '...curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it ' favourably, philanthropia is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be re' moved. And I do easily see,... | |
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