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... speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed to the infinite mercy and goodness of God , and to the felicity of your Majesty's times ; to which as I have been an honest and affectionate ...
... speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed to the infinite mercy and goodness of God , and to the felicity of your Majesty's times ; to which as I have been an honest and affectionate ...
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... speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account only what is known and ordinary ; and leads to no result . Now ...
... speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account only what is known and ordinary ; and leads to no result . Now ...
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... 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 things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way 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 things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way to ...
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... 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 , by which the entire process of ...
... 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 , by which the entire process of ...
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... speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike . Neither again do I mean this only ...
... speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike . Neither again do I mean this only ...
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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.