Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, Volumen18Colonial Press, 1899 - 476 páginas |
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... former benefactor , the rash and unfortunate Essex . For his action in connection with this trial , Bacon has been severely criticised . A careful study of the facts , however , seems to show that so long as Bacon believed that Essex ...
... former benefactor , the rash and unfortunate Essex . For his action in connection with this trial , Bacon has been severely criticised . A careful study of the facts , however , seems to show that so long as Bacon believed that Essex ...
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... former censure of the Grecian learning was rather an affected gravity than his inward sense . And , in- deed , the Romans never arrived at their height of empire till they had arrived at their height of arts ; for in the time of the two ...
... former censure of the Grecian learning was rather an affected gravity than his inward sense . And , in- deed , the Romans never arrived at their height of empire till they had arrived at their height of arts ; for in the time of the two ...
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... former ; for as the dignity of matter exceeds the beauty of words , so vanity in matter is worse than vanity in words ; whence the precept of St. Paul is at all times seasonable : " Avoid profane and vain He babblings , and oppositions ...
... former ; for as the dignity of matter exceeds the beauty of words , so vanity in matter is worse than vanity in words ; whence the precept of St. Paul is at all times seasonable : " Avoid profane and vain He babblings , and oppositions ...
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... former in ecclesiasti- cal history , which has too easily received and registered re- lations of miracles wrought by martyrs , hermits , monks , and their relics , shrines , chapels , and images . So in natural history , there has not ...
... former in ecclesiasti- cal history , which has too easily received and registered re- lations of miracles wrought by martyrs , hermits , monks , and their relics , shrines , chapels , and images . So in natural history , there has not ...
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... times are ancient when the world is ancient ; and not those we vulgarly account ancient by com- . puting backwards ; so that the present time is the real antiquity . Another error , proceeding from the former , is , 20 BACON.
... times are ancient when the world is ancient ; and not those we vulgarly account ancient by com- . puting backwards ; so that the present time is the real antiquity . Another error , proceeding from the former , is , 20 BACON.
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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.