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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... things , and by reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable ; he thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than anything on earth , or at least ...
... things , and by reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable ; he thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is more precious than anything on earth , or at least ...
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... nature of things and of the mind . And to say 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 ...
... nature of things and of the mind . And to say 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 ...
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... nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an ...
... nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it . It seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength , but overrate the one and underrate the other . Hence it follows , that either from an ...
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... nature , with- draw my intellect from them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays of natural objects meet in a point , as they do in the sense of vision ; whence it follows that the strength and excellency of the wit has ...
... nature , with- draw my intellect from them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays of natural objects meet in a point , as they do in the sense of vision ; whence it follows that the strength and excellency of the wit has ...
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... things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but ...
... things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no incredulity or darkness with regard to the divine mysteries ; but ...
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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.