The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1877 - English literature |
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Page 131
... Heraclitus , Empedocles , Parmenides , Anaxagoras , Leucippus , Democritus , Plato , Aris- totle , Zeno , and others . All these invented systems of the uni- verse , each according to his own fancy , like so many arguments of plays ...
... Heraclitus , Empedocles , Parmenides , Anaxagoras , Leucippus , Democritus , Plato , Aris- totle , Zeno , and others . All these invented systems of the uni- verse , each according to his own fancy , like so many arguments of plays ...
Page 307
... Heraclitus that , being afflicted with the dropsy , he covered himself up in the warm belly of a newly slain ox . 13. The warm blood of kittens is used for erysipelas , and to restore the flesh and skin . 14. In amputations or great ...
... Heraclitus that , being afflicted with the dropsy , he covered himself up in the warm belly of a newly slain ox . 13. The warm blood of kittens is used for erysipelas , and to restore the flesh and skin . 14. In amputations or great ...
Page 467
... Heraclitus , and Democritus , though in other respects they differed about the first matter , agreed in this , that they set down matter as active , as having some form , as dispensing that form , and as having the principle of motion ...
... Heraclitus , and Democritus , though in other respects they differed about the first matter , agreed in this , that they set down matter as active , as having some form , as dispensing that form , and as having the principle of motion ...
Page 471
... perpetu- ally exhales air , and has no need to pass through water into the form of air . Heraclitus , on the other hand , with more · acuteness but less credibility , made Fire to be the ин 4 " DE PRINCIPIIS ATQUE ORIGINIBUS . " 471.
... perpetu- ally exhales air , and has no need to pass through water into the form of air . Heraclitus , on the other hand , with more · acuteness but less credibility , made Fire to be the ин 4 " DE PRINCIPIIS ATQUE ORIGINIBUS . " 471.
Page 472
... nature seems as it were to gather to a point in the vertex of the pyramid , and to have reached the limit of her proper action . Therefore this kindling or catching fire Heraclitus called peace ; 472 TRANSLATION OF THE.
... nature seems as it were to gather to a point in the vertex of the pyramid , and to have reached the limit of her proper action . Therefore this kindling or catching fire Heraclitus called peace ; 472 TRANSLATION OF THE.
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