Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, Volumen18Colonial Press, 1899 - 476 páginas |
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... , that he has the power and the right in virtue of his intelligence to subdue it to himself , and make its forces minister to his wants . This spirit dom- inated more or less unconsciously the daring navigators and adventurers iii.
... , that he has the power and the right in virtue of his intelligence to subdue it to himself , and make its forces minister to his wants . This spirit dom- inated more or less unconsciously the daring navigators and adventurers iii.
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... virtue and fortune , at the surprising develop- ment of that part of your nature which philosophers call intel- lectual . The deep and broad capacity of your mind , the grasp of your memory , the quickness of your apprehension , the ...
... virtue and fortune , at the surprising develop- ment of that part of your nature which philosophers call intel- lectual . The deep and broad capacity of your mind , the grasp of your memory , the quickness of your apprehension , the ...
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... virtue seems to contend with fortune- your Majesty being possessed of a virtuous disposition and a prosperous government , a virtuous observance of the duties of the conjugal state with most blessed and happy fruit of mar- riage , a ...
... virtue seems to contend with fortune- your Majesty being possessed of a virtuous disposition and a prosperous government , a virtuous observance of the duties of the conjugal state with most blessed and happy fruit of mar- riage , a ...
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... virtue , which , if well pursued , there will be as little use of reasons of state , as of physic in a healthy constitution . Nor can the experience of one man's life furnish examples and prece- dents for another's ; present occurrences ...
... virtue , which , if well pursued , there will be as little use of reasons of state , as of physic in a healthy constitution . Nor can the experience of one man's life furnish examples and prece- dents for another's ; present occurrences ...
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... virtue , though it may sometimes pro- ceed from guilt , c so it holds true of poverty that it is the attend- ant of virtue , though sometimes it may proceed from mis- management and accident . As for retirement , it is a theme so common ...
... virtue , though it may sometimes pro- ceed from guilt , c so it holds true of poverty that it is the attend- ant of virtue , though sometimes it may proceed from mis- management and accident . As for retirement , it is a theme so common ...
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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.