The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1858 - English literature |
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Page 58
... action or motion ; for forms are figments of the human mind , unless you will call those laws of action forms . LII . Such then are the idols which I call Idols of the Tribe ; and which take their rise either from the homogeneity of the ...
... action or motion ; for forms are figments of the human mind , unless you will call those laws of action forms . LII . Such then are the idols which I call Idols of the Tribe ; and which take their rise either from the homogeneity of the ...
Page 62
... actions which will not bear to be reduced to any constant meaning . For it both signifies that which easily spreads itself round any other body ; and that which in itself is indeterminate and cannot solidise ; and that which readily ...
... actions which will not bear to be reduced to any constant meaning . For it both signifies that which easily spreads itself round any other body ; and that which in itself is indeterminate and cannot solidise ; and that which readily ...
Page 75
... action and operation ; as that the heat of the sun and of fire are quite different in kind , ―lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that ...
... action and operation ; as that the heat of the sun and of fire are quite different in kind , ―lest men should imagine that by the operations of fire anything like the works of nature can be educed and formed . Hence the notion that ...
Page 86
... action not fabulous or monstrous . Yet surely it is not fair that the credit of true history should be lessened because it has some- times been injured and wronged by fables . Meanwhile it is not to be wondered at , if a great prejudice ...
... action not fabulous or monstrous . Yet surely it is not fair that the credit of true history should be lessened because it has some- times been injured and wronged by fables . Meanwhile it is not to be wondered at , if a great prejudice ...
Page 120
... action . The discovery of the formal is despaired of . The efficient and the material ( as they are investigated and received , that is , as remote causes , without reference to the latent process leading to the form ) are but slight ...
... action . The discovery of the formal is despaired of . The efficient and the material ( as they are investigated and received , that is , as remote causes , without reference to the latent process leading to the form ) are but slight ...
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