 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man ; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...after realities and works. But the riddle proposed to Œdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man ; for whoever... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1860 - 432 pages
...they strangely torment and worry the mind, pulling it first this way and then that, and fair- J ly tearing it to pieces. Moreover the riddles of the...true natural philosophy ; however the philosophy of i the School, content with what it finds, and swelling with talk, may neglect or spurn the search after... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 430 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...after realities and works. But the riddle proposed to (Edipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes, related to the nature of man ; for whoever... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...intellectual perceptions, the means of imparting to them fresh strength and growth. N. 0., W. iv, 79, tr. For the command over things natural,— over bodies,...proper and ultimate end of true natural philosophy. De Sapientia Veterum. W. vi, 757, tr. We see that if men fall to subdivide their labours, as to be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 pages
...over things natural,—over bodies, medicines, mechanical powers, and infinite other of the kind—is the one proper and ultimate end of true natural philosophy;...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man ; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a variety of hard questions nnd riddles which she received from the Muses. In these,...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes related to the nature of man ; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - 1997 - 388 pages
...because at every turn in the journey or pilgrimage of human life, matter and occasion for study assails and encounters us. Again Sphinx proposes to men a...riddle proposed to CEdipus, by the solution of which he became King of Thebes, related to the nature of man; for whoever has a thorough insight into the... | |
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For the command over things natural, — over bodies, medicines, mechanical powers, and infinite other of the kind — is the one proper and ultimate end of true natural philosophy ; however the philosophy of the School, content with what it finds, and... 