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Page 15
... remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and ...
... remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing better than the confidence of a few persons and ...
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... remains to be done . Moreover , to be of good hope , nor to imagine that this Instauration of mine is a thing infinite and beyond the power of man , when it is in fact the true end and termination of infinite error ; and seeing also ...
... remains to be done . Moreover , to be of good hope , nor to imagine that this Instauration of mine is a thing infinite and beyond the power of man , when it is in fact the true end and termination of infinite error ; and seeing also ...
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... remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , — namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its own course , but ...
... remains but one course for the recovery of a sound and healthy condition , — namely , that the entire work of the understanding be com- menced afresh , and the mind itself be from the very outset not left to take its own course , but ...
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... remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty . For if I should profess that I , going the same road as the ancients , have something better to produce , there ...
... remains untouched and undiminished ; while I may carry out my designs and at the same time reap the fruit of my modesty . For if I should profess that I , going the same road as the ancients , have something better to produce , there ...
Page 53
... remains to us ; which is simply this : we must lead men to the particulars themselves , and their series and order ; while men on their side must force themselves for awhile to lay their notions by and begin to familiarise themselves ...
... remains to us ; which is simply this : we must lead men to the particulars themselves , and their series and order ; while men on their side must force themselves for awhile to lay their notions by and begin to familiarise themselves ...
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