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... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
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... truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences . had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and ...
... truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and the sloth and indolence of the rest . For after the sciences . had been in several parts perhaps cultivated and ...
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... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
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... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
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... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
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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.