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... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental IIistory , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental IIistory , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
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... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
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... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
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... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
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... example of the first class was Aris- totle , who corrupted natural philosophy by his logic : fashion- ing the world out of categories ; assigning to the human soul , the noblest of substances , a genus from words of the second intention ...
... example of the first class was Aris- totle , who corrupted natural philosophy by his logic : fashion- ing the world out of categories ; assigning to the human soul , the noblest of substances , a genus from words of the second intention ...
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Page 54 - ... owing either to his own proper and peculiar nature; or to his education and conversation with others; or to the reading of books, and the authority of those whom he esteems and admires; or to the differences of impressions, accordingly as they take place in a mind preoccupied and predisposed or in a mind indifferent and settled ; or the like.
Page 396 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 97 - For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare experience, while the highest and most general (which we now have) are notional and abstract and without solidity. But the middle are the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men...
Page 137 - For since the Form of a thing is the very thing itself, and the thing differs from the form no otherwise than as the apparent differs from the real, or the external from the internal, or the thing in reference to man from the thing in reference to the universe...
Page 338 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 384 - The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they were judged by recovery or death.
Page 315 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 32 - And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world...
Page 29 - Nay (to say the plain truth) I do in fact (low and vulgar as men may think it) count more upon this part both for helps and safeguards than upon the other ; seeing that the nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Page 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be . produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.