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... PARTICULAR HISTORIES OF THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF BOOKS II.—VI. LEARNING . ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . BOOK III . BOOK IV . BOOK V. BOOK VI . 275 · 283 - 336 372 · 405 · 438 TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS ...
... PARTICULAR HISTORIES OF THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF BOOKS II.—VI. LEARNING . ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . BOOK III . BOOK IV . BOOK V. BOOK VI . 275 · 283 - 336 372 · 405 · 438 TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS ...
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... particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples ...
... particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples ...
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... particular sciences and speculations , either because they fancy themselves the authors and inventors thereof , or because they have bestowed the greatest pains upon them and become most habituated to them . But men of this kind , if ...
... particular sciences and speculations , either because they fancy themselves the authors and inventors thereof , or because they have bestowed the greatest pains upon them and become most habituated to them . But men of this kind , if ...
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... particular ages , or out of the largeness or minuteness of the objects contemplated . And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule , -that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be ...
... particular ages , or out of the largeness or minuteness of the objects contemplated . And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule , -that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be ...
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... particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and general divisions of such systems I must say something ; something also touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something ...
... particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and general divisions of such systems I must say something ; something also touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something ...
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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.