| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...the study of the worts and creatures of God ;" and in effecting the object of this new society, which is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the accomplishment of all things possible, be gives a finished exampkofthelucidusordo. Having set forth... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...both its credenda and its agenda ; its researches are both lucifera and fructifera ; its end is both " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...empire to the effecting of all things possible." * The latter of these was a continual subject of high and bright anticipation to Lord Bacon ; and, throughout... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...of our foundation is the knowledge of " causes, and secret motions of things ; and the en" larging of the bounds of human empire, to the " effecting...things possible. " THE preparations and instruments are these. " We have large and deep caves of several depths : " the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites " which we observe. i; " THE end of our foundation is the know" ledge of causes, and secret motions of things; " and the...things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. " We have large and deep caves of several depths : " the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...for dissections and trials, that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." («) In these glorious inventions of one rich mind, may be traced much of what has been effected in... | |
| Industrial arts - 1825 - 590 pages
...restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature;" (of the interpretation of nature;) "The enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible/' — (New Atlantis.) From the enlargement of reason he did not separate the growth of virtue, for he... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites " which we observe. " THE end of our foundation is the know" ledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; " and the...things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. " We have large and deep caves of several depths : " the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...near, making feigned distances. We have also helps for the sight, far above spectacles and glasses. enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."(n) In these glorious inventions _of one rich mind, may traced much of what has been effected... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end o" our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and seer-' hurtful, to discontinue it by little and little; but so, as if thou do th» effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large... | |
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