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... solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts of nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's ...
... solid foundation of experience of every kind , and the same well examined and weighed . I have provided the machine , but the stuff must be gathered from the facts of nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's ...
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... that Time is like a river , which has brought down to us things light and puffed up , while those which are weighty and solid have sunk . Nay , those very authors who So it is but a have usurped a kind of PREFACE . 15.
... that Time is like a river , which has brought down to us things light and puffed up , while those which are weighty and solid have sunk . Nay , those very authors who So it is but a have usurped a kind of PREFACE . 15.
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... solid are most contracted and lie in little room . And now I have only one favour more to ask ( else injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself ) -that men will consider well how far , upon that which I must needs assert ...
... solid are most contracted and lie in little room . And now I have only one favour more to ask ( else injustice to me may perhaps imperil the business itself ) -that men will consider well how far , upon that which I must needs assert ...
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... Solid and Fluid , Heavy and Light , and several others . Then again , to speak of subtlety : I seek out and get together a kind of experiments much subtler and simpler than those which occur accidentally . For I drag into light many ...
... Solid and Fluid , Heavy and Light , and several others . Then again , to speak of subtlety : I seek out and get together a kind of experiments much subtler and simpler than those which occur accidentally . For I drag into light many ...
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... solid easily melts . Accordingly when you come to apply the word , —if you take it in one sense , flame is humid ; if in another , air is not humid ; if in another , fine dust is humid ; if in another , glass is humid . So that it is ...
... solid easily melts . Accordingly when you come to apply the word , —if you take it in one sense , flame is humid ; if in another , air is not humid ; if in another , fine dust is humid ; if in another , glass is humid . So that it is ...
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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.