The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1858 - English literature |
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... human family with new mercies . This likewise I humbly pray , that things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no ...
... human family with new mercies . This likewise I humbly pray , that things human may not interfere with things divine , and that from the opening of the ways of sense and the increase of natural light there may arise in our minds no ...
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... humanity , ( for it does not suppose that the work can be altogether com- pleted within one generation , but provides for its being taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of ...
... humanity , ( for it does not suppose that the work can be altogether com- pleted within one generation , but provides for its being taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of ...
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... human race at present possesses . For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that ...
... human race at present possesses . For I thought it good to make some pause upon that which is received ; that thereby the old may be more easily made perfect and the new more easily approached . And I hold the improve- ment of that ...
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... human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con- dition of mortality and humanity allows ) the intellect may be raised and exalted , and made capable of overcoming ...
... human reason in the inquisition of things , and the true helps of the understanding : that thereby ( as far as the con- dition of mortality and humanity allows ) the intellect may be raised and exalted , and made capable of overcoming ...
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... the genuine light of nature and kindling and bringing it to bear . And they would be suffi- cient of themselves , if the human intellect were even , and like a fair sheet of paper with no writing on it 26 PLAN OF THE WORK .
... the genuine light of nature and kindling and bringing it to bear . And they would be suffi- cient of themselves , if the human intellect were even , and like a fair sheet of paper with no writing on it 26 PLAN OF THE WORK .
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