 I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...  New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 391857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Parker Woodward - 1902 - 144 pages
...confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, ano* profitable inventions and discoveries; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 534 pages
...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils — I hope I should bring...curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or (if one take it favorably) philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Walter Begley - 1903 - 418 pages
...experiments " and " impostures " in another part, had done so much damage, that then he hoped that he could " bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions,...curiosity or vainglory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed." It never was removed, and... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1904 - 298 pages
...auricular traditions and impostures (unmethodical investigators, eg alchemists, astrologers, etc.) hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations and profitable inventions and discoveries — the best state of that province. This. ..is so fixed... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...astrologers, etc.) hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations and profitable inventions and discoveries — the best state of that province. This... is so fixed in my mind that it cannot be removed." And in his letter to Toby Matthews in 1609 he says,... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 814 pages
...auricular traditions and impostures (unmethodical investigators, eg alchemists, astrologers, etc.) hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations and profitable inventions and discoveries — the best state of that province." His plan as indicated... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 280 pages
...auricular traditions and impostures (unmethodical investigators, eg alchemists, astrologers, etc.) hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations and profitable inventions and discoveries — the best state of that province. This... is so fixed... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 780 pages
...industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries — the_ best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or (if one take it favorably) philant.hropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed. And Ido easily see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 pages
...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in...curiosity or vainglory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 272 pages
...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in...profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state in that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or (if one take it favorably)... | |
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