Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, Volumen18Colonial Press, 1899 - 476 páginas |
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... aphorisms and observations , re- mains in a growing state ; but when once fashioned into methods , though it may be further polished , illustrated , and fitted for use , it no longer increases in bulk and substance . Another error is ...
... aphorisms and observations , re- mains in a growing state ; but when once fashioned into methods , though it may be further polished , illustrated , and fitted for use , it no longer increases in bulk and substance . Another error is ...
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... aphorism , as applied to Anti- christ , the great deceiver , plainly shows us that a man's coming in his own name , without regard to antiquity or paternity , is no good sign of truth , though joined with the fortune and success of ...
... aphorism , as applied to Anti- christ , the great deceiver , plainly shows us that a man's coming in his own name , without regard to antiquity or paternity , is no good sign of truth , though joined with the fortune and success of ...
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... aphorisms . And , therefore , no person is equal to the forming of aphorisms , nor would ever think of them , if he did not find himself copiously and solidly instructed for writing upon a sub- ject . But in methods so great a power ...
... aphorisms . And , therefore , no person is equal to the forming of aphorisms , nor would ever think of them , if he did not find himself copiously and solidly instructed for writing upon a sub- ject . But in methods so great a power ...
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... aphorism of Hippocrates , that those who labor under a violent disease , yet seem insensible of their pain , are dis- ordered in their mind . And men in this case want not only a method of cure , but a particular remedy , to bring them ...
... aphorism of Hippocrates , that those who labor under a violent disease , yet seem insensible of their pain , are dis- ordered in their mind . And men in this case want not only a method of cure , but a particular remedy , to bring them ...
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... aphorisms of Solomon , of whom the Script- ure bears testimony , that " his heart was as the sand of the sea . " b For the sand of the sea encompasses the extremities of the whole earth ; so his wisdom comprehended all things , both ...
... aphorisms of Solomon , of whom the Script- ure bears testimony , that " his heart was as the sand of the sea . " b For the sand of the sea encompasses the extremities of the whole earth ; so his wisdom comprehended all things , both ...
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Página 38 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 202 - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed...
Página 5 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Página 59 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...
Página 3 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Página 23 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Página 15 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
Página 319 - The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man ; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembles those uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
Página 405 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 317 - There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the divine mind; that is to say, between certain idle dogmas, and the real stamp and impression of created objects, as they are found in nature.