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... hands . For first , the information of the sense itself , sometimes failing , sometimes false ; observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition , vain and fed on rumour ; practice , slavishly bent upon its work ...
... hands . For first , the information of the sense itself , sometimes failing , sometimes false ; observation , careless , irregular , and led by chance ; tradition , vain and fed on rumour ; practice , slavishly bent upon its work ...
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... hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all experiments of the mechanical arts , of the operative part of the liberal arts , of the many crafts which have not yet ...
... hand of man she is forced out of her natural state , and squeezed and moulded . Therefore I set down at length all experiments of the mechanical arts , of the operative part of the liberal arts , of the many crafts which have not yet ...
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... hand is no mere felicity of speculation , but the real busi- ness and fortunes of the human race , and all power of opera- tion . For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has ...
... hand is no mere felicity of speculation , but the real busi- ness and fortunes of the human race , and all power of opera- tion . For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has ...
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... hands had made , saw that all was vanity and vexation of spirit , and could find no rest therein . Wherefore if we ... hands , and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit , thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human ...
... hands had made , saw that all was vanity and vexation of spirit , and could find no rest therein . Wherefore if we ... hands , and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit , thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human ...
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... hand who have taken a contrary course , and asserted that absolutely nothing can be known , whether it were from hatred of the ancient sophists , or from uncertainty and fluctuation of mind , or even from a kind of fulness of learning ...
... hand who have taken a contrary course , and asserted that absolutely nothing can be known , whether it were from hatred of the ancient sophists , or from uncertainty and fluctuation of mind , or even from a kind of fulness of learning ...
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