The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes by the Late Robert Leslie Ellis, Together with English Translations of the Principal Latin Pieces, Volume 4Longman & Company, 1861 |
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... Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with ... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the ... nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's Most bounden ...
... Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with ... philosophy and the sciences may no longer float in air , but rest on the ... nature . May God Almighty long preserve your Majesty ! Your Majesty's Most bounden ...
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... Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New Philosophy ...
... Nature . 3. The Phenomena of the Universe ; or a Natural and Experi- mental History for the foundation of Philosophy . 4. The Ladder of the Intellect . 5. The Forerunners ; or Anticipations of the New Philosophy . 6. The New Philosophy ...
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... nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all experiments of the mechanical arts , of the ...
... nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all experiments of the mechanical arts , of the ...
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... philosophy in its course of natural history , not to let it accus- tom itself in the beginning to any vanity . Moreover , when- ever I come to a new experiment of any subtlety ( though it be in my own opinion certain and approved ) , I ...
... philosophy in its course of natural history , not to let it accus- tom itself in the beginning to any vanity . Moreover , when- ever I come to a new experiment of any subtlety ( though it be in my own opinion certain and approved ) , I ...
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... philosophy and contemplations of a general character , distort and colour them in obedience to their former fancies ; a thing especially to be noticed in Aristotle , who made his natural philosophy a mere bond - servant to his logic ...
... philosophy and contemplations of a general character , distort and colour them in obedience to their former fancies ; a thing especially to be noticed in Aristotle , who made his natural philosophy a mere bond - servant to his logic ...
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Page 92 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the ~reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
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 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 396 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
Page 55 - There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market-place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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.
Page 110 - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Page 63 - For the Rational School of philosophers snatches from experience a variety of common instances, neither duly ascertained nor diligently examined and weighed, and leaves all the rest to meditation and agitation of wit.
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.