Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, Volumen18Colonial Press, 1899 - 476 páginas |
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... degree shines forth in such of his works as have descended to us . In the Commentary , that excellent history which he has left us , of his own wars , succeeding ages have admired the solidity of the matter , the vivid passages and the ...
... degree shines forth in such of his works as have descended to us . In the Commentary , that excellent history which he has left us , of his own wars , succeeding ages have admired the solidity of the matter , the vivid passages and the ...
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... degrees , so it greatly takes from the authority of history to intermix matters of triumph , ceremony , and novelty , with matters of state . And it were to be wished that this distinction prevailed ; but in our times journals are only ...
... degrees , so it greatly takes from the authority of history to intermix matters of triumph , ceremony , and novelty , with matters of state . And it were to be wished that this distinction prevailed ; but in our times journals are only ...
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... degree of creatures , or to think of them higher than we have reason ; but the sober inquiry about them , which either ascends to a knowledge of their nature by the scale of corporeal beings , or views them in the mind , as in a glass ...
... degree of creatures , or to think of them higher than we have reason ; but the sober inquiry about them , which either ascends to a knowledge of their nature by the scale of corporeal beings , or views them in the mind , as in a glass ...
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... degree , the humors and constitu- tion of the body may affect the soul , or act upon it ; and 2d , how , and to what degree , the passions and apprehensions of the soul may affect and work upon the body . The first of these we sometimes ...
... degree , the humors and constitu- tion of the body may affect the soul , or act upon it ; and 2d , how , and to what degree , the passions and apprehensions of the soul may affect and work upon the body . The first of these we sometimes ...
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... degree rather than species from the soul of brutes , as the sun differs from the stars , or gold from other metals . There may also be another division of the general doctrine of the human soul into the doctrine of the substance and ...
... degree rather than species from the soul of brutes , as the sun differs from the stars , or gold from other metals . There may also be another division of the general doctrine of the human soul into the doctrine of the substance and ...
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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.