The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1858 - English literature |
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... judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books which you have composed - would further follow his example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural ...
... judgments , in the peacefulness of your reign , in the largeness of your heart , in the noble variety of the books which you have composed - would further follow his example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural ...
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... judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most fallacious and weak . For , first , we are far from knowing all that in the matter of sciences and arts has in various ages and places been brought to ...
... judgment of Time , let me tell him that the reasoning on which he relies is most fallacious and weak . For , first , we are far from knowing all that in the matter of sciences and arts has in various ages and places been brought to ...
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... judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the whole way from ...
... judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the whole way from ...
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... judgment made thereby . For the induction of which the logicians speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account ...
... judgment made thereby . For the induction of which the logicians speak , which proceeds by simple enu- meration , is a puerile thing ; concludes at hazard ; is always liable to be upset by a contradictory instance ; takes into account ...
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... judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the sense itself I sift and ex- amine in many ways . For certain it is that the senses deceive ; but then at the same time they supply the means of discovering ...
... judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the sense itself I sift and ex- amine in many ways . For certain it is that the senses deceive ; but then at the same time they supply the means of discovering ...
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