The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksBrown and Taggard, 1863 |
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... Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have come to pass which has been the case now for many ages that they stand almost at a stay , without receiv- ing any augmentations worthy of the ...
... Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have come to pass which has been the case now for many ages that they stand almost at a stay , without receiv- ing any augmentations worthy of the ...
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... observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old con- tinent or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ; but before the ocean could be traversed and the new world discovered , the use of the mariner's ...
... observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old con- tinent or cross a few small and mediterranean seas ; but before the ocean could be traversed and the new world discovered , the use of the mariner's ...
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... observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition , vain and fed on rumour ; practice , slavishly bent upon its work ; experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and prematurely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial ...
... observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition , vain and fed on rumour ; practice , slavishly bent upon its work ; experiment , blind , stupid , vague , and prematurely broken off ; lastly , natural history trivial ...
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... observed that the fables and superstitions and follies which nurses instil into children do serious injury to their minds ; and the same consideration makes me anxious , having the VOL . VIII . management of the childhood as it were of ...
... observed that the fables and superstitions and follies which nurses instil into children do serious injury to their minds ; and the same consideration makes me anxious , having the VOL . VIII . management of the childhood as it were of ...
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... observations of my own , being as the first offers , inclinations , and as it were glances of his- tory towards philosophy ; both by way of an assurance to men that they will not be kept for ever tossing on the waves of experience , and ...
... observations of my own , being as the first offers , inclinations , and as it were glances of his- tory towards philosophy ; both by way of an assurance to men that they will not be kept for ever tossing on the waves of experience , and ...
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Page 72 - XIX There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms.
Page 146 - But for my part I do not trouble myself with any such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary, is to try whether I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man.
Page 437 - 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 154 - And therefore I attribute my part in all this, as I have often said, rather to good luck than to ability, and account it a birth of time rather than of wit.
Page 61 - There remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition,— namely, that the entire work of the understanding be commenced afresh, and the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its own course, but guided at every step; and the business be done as if by machinery.
Page 85 - The Idols of the Cave take their rise in the peculiar constitution, mental or bodily, of each individual; and also in education, habit, and accident. Of this kind there is a great number and variety; but I will instance those the pointing out of which contains the most important caution, and which have most effect in disturbing the clearness of the understanding.
Page 155 - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Page 205 - For when I speak of Forms, I mean nothing more than those laws and determinations of absolute actuality, which govern and constitute any simple nature, as heat, light, weight, in every kind of matter and subject that is susceptible of them. Thus the Form of heat or the Form of light is the same thing as the Law of heat or the Law of light.
Page 35 - And by these means I suppose that I have established for ever a true and lawful marriage between the empirical and the rational faculty, the unkind and ill-starred divorce and separation of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs of the human family.
Page 73 - The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the purpose, only there is no one by to observe it.