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... inquiry , of which they are weary and impatient . And if any one take this general acquiescence and consent for an argument of weight , as being the judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most ...
... inquiry , of which they are weary and impatient . And if any one take this general acquiescence and consent for an argument of weight , as being the judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most ...
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... inquiry . There is none who has dwelt upon ex- perience and the facts of nature as long as is necessary . Some there are indeed who have committed themselves to the waves of experience , and almost turned mechanics ; yet these again ...
... inquiry . There is none who has dwelt upon ex- perience and the facts of nature as long as is necessary . Some there are indeed who have committed themselves to the waves of experience , and almost turned mechanics ; yet these again ...
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... inquiry incomplete , nevertheless I so present these things naked and open , that my errors can be marked and set aside before the mass of know- ledge be further infected by them ; and it will be easy also for others to continue and ...
... inquiry incomplete , nevertheless I so present these things naked and open , that my errors can be marked and set aside before the mass of know- ledge be further infected by them ; and it will be easy also for others to continue and ...
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... inquiry , and is abstracted from the facts rashly and sooner than is fit , is by me rejected ( so far as the inquisition of nature is concerned ) , as a thing uncertain , confused , and ill built up ; and I cannot be fairly asked to ...
... inquiry , and is abstracted from the facts rashly and sooner than is fit , is by me rejected ( so far as the inquisition of nature is concerned ) , as a thing uncertain , confused , and ill built up ; and I cannot be fairly asked to ...
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... inquiry . For the end which this science of mine proposes is the inven- tion not of arguments but of arts ; not of things in accordance with principles , but of principles themselves ; not of probable reasons , but of designations and ...
... inquiry . For the end which this science of mine proposes is the inven- tion not of arguments but of arts ; not of things in accordance with principles , but of principles themselves ; not of probable reasons , but of designations and ...
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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.