 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations...age, which is an unstable thing, but in the light or nature and experience, which is eternal. These factions therefore must be abjured, and care must... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1863 - 532 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations...the intellect be not hurried by them into assent. LVU. ' Contemplations of nature and of bodies in their simple form break up and distract the understanding,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 528 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations...care must be taken that the intellect be not hurried bv them into assent. LVII. Contemplations of nature and of bodies in their simple form break up and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...injury of the sciences and philosophy, since these aJTectations of antiquity and novelty are the humors of partisans rather than .judgments ; and truth Is to be sought for, not in the felicity of any nge, which is an unstable thing, but. in the light of nature and experience, which is eternal. These... | |
 | Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced liy the moderns. This, however, turns to tli<- great injury of the sciences and philosophy, since these affectations of antiquity and novelty are the humors of partisans rnther than judinncnts ; and truth is to 1« sought for, not In the felicity of... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...with the idea of providing a tool for the human mind, as his title, The New Instrument, indicates. Truth is to be sought for "not in the felicity of...light of nature and experience, which is eternal. Neither the naked hand nor the naked mind can effect much. It is by instruments and help that the work... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 812 pages
...with the idea of providing a tool for the human mind, as his title, The New Instrument, indicates. Truth is to be sought for "not in the felicity of...light of nature and experience, which is eternal. Neither the naked hand nor the naked mind can effect much. It is by instruments and help that the work... | |
 | John Locke - Comprehension - 1901 - 156 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations of antiquity and novelty are the humors of partisans rather than judgments ; and truth is to be sought for not in the felicity of any... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations...the intellect be not hurried by them into assent. LVI I. Contemplations of nature and of bodies in their simple form break up and distract the understanding,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy ; since these affectations...and truth is to be sought for not in the felicity of a'ay age, which is an unstable thing, but in the light of ijiature and experience, which is eternal.... | |
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... extreme admiration of antiquity, others to an extreme love and appetite for novelty; but few so duly tempered that they can hold the mean, neither carping at what has been well laid down by the ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the... 
