 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1863 - 532 pages
...way of interest (so to speak), till the thing itself, which is the principal, be fully known. cxv1. First, then, I must request men not to suppose that...(and these I have collected into the fifth part of my Installation,) yet I have no entire or universal theory to propound. For it does not seem that the... | |
 | Birmingham Speculative Club - Medicine - 1870 - 320 pages
...glory of the University, in experimental science, as in all other departments of human inquiry, "to lay more firmly the foundations and extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." * WM. MATHEWS, JUN. Nov. Org., Bk. I., Aph. cxvi. ESSAY III. SOME THOUGHTS ON PAUPERISM. TT^ORTY years... | |
 | 1882 - 514 pages
...loss of a little human labor." Our purpose, therefore, with Lord Bacon holds good " to try whether we cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations,...widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." Our founders have rightly placed much stress upon the study of our English Literature. "There is,"... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 928 pages
...«1 ; Vu. Ter. (Wer»«, Ш. IS5); пет г, Ъ. L (Works, Ш. S»«). new powers or works,"1 or "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." '- Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...bold man try, but also to make a soberminded and wise man believe. " My purpose is to try whether 1 cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations,...widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man. For 1 am building in thehumin understanding a true model of the world, such as it is in fact, not such... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 780 pages
...true aim of all science is "to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works,"* or "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man." e Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
 | Lewis Flint Anderson - Education - 1909 - 370 pages
...civilization. Bacon's aim was to establish the natural sciences, and through the effective pursuit of them to " lay more firmly the foundations and extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man" (NO, Aph. 116). Bacon accounts for the backwardness of the natural sciences by stating that only six... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 512 pages
...utilitarian, ideal, thus, of the office of philosophy was its mastery of the secrets of nature "to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man. " Bacon's criticism of past error was just and needful, his separation of science from religion valuable... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1110 pages
...aim of all science is " to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works/'1 or " to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man."' Nevertheless, it is not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search there... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1034 pages
...aim of all science is " to endow the condition and life of man with new powers or works," s or *' to extend more widely the limits of the power and greatness of man."' Nevertheless, ¡t ¡s not to be imagined that by this being proposed as the great object of search... | |
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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... 
