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... causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira- tion with which our existing stock of ...
... causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but absolutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admira- tion with which our existing stock of ...
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... causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing ... cause ? So it is but a device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and ...
... causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing ... cause ? So it is but a device for exempting ignorance from ignominy . Now for those things which are delivered and ...
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... causes of erring are the same in both . And if there have been any who , not binding themselves either to other men's opinions or to their own , but loving liberty , have desired to engage others along with them- selves in search ...
... causes of erring are the same in both . And if there have been any who , not binding themselves either to other men's opinions or to their own , but loving liberty , have desired to engage others along with them- selves in search ...
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... causes . And again when the sense does apprehend a thing its apprehension is not much to be relied upon . For the testimony and information of the sense has reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to ...
... causes . And again when the sense does apprehend a thing its apprehension is not much to be relied upon . For the testimony and information of the sense has reference always to man , not to the universe ; and it is a great error to ...
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... causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss ...
... causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food . For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences , yet I wait for harvest - time , and do not attempt to mow the moss ...
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Page 489 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 409 - So that it was no marvel, the manner of antiquity being to consecrate inventors, that the Egyptians had so few human idols in their temples, but almost all brute. Omnigenumque Deum monstra, et latrator Anubis, Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, contraque Minervam...
Page 248 - For man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired ; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences.
Page 396 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
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 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 93 - ... power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never yet been made), much may be hoped.
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 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.