 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...preparations ami instruments are these : we bare large and deep caves of several depths ; the deepest are snnk six hundred fathom, and some of them are digged and...great hills and mountains ; so, that if you reckon together the depth of the bill and the depth of the cave, they are some of them above three miles deep... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1863 - 470 pages
...says one of the members, "is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." Fontenelle paints in his own manner — that is, with expressions of which each has its point and its... | |
 | Cumbria (England) - 1867 - 332 pages
...formation he defined to be the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...things possible. The preparations and instruments were numerous. They had caves of great depth ; some of them being sunk so far as six hundred fathoms... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...End of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." (W. HI, 156.) The following are a few of the parts and proceedings of this College. " We have certain... | |
 | John H. Bell - Atlantic States - 1870 - 394 pages
...The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. -^^— Baton. Canada I was recalled to the States. A young c5| friend in Brooklyn urged me to come... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...his principal personage, ' is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' And this ' possible ' is infinite. How did this grand and just conception originate ? Doubtless common... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...his principal personage, ' is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' And this ' possible ' is infinite. How did this grand and just conception originate ? Doubtless common... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 800 pages
...the end of which is the knowledge of causes and of the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." While we have endeavored to show that abstract science is entitled to high appreciation and liberal... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1872 - 382 pages
...(in the language of Bacon), " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire , to the effecting of all things possible." Report on the recent Progress of Chemistry. By LE ROT C. COOLET, Ph. D. [Read before the Institute,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. 
