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... likewise comprehends them all . For we form a history and tables of invention for anger , fear , shame , and the like , and also for examples in civil life , and the mental operations of memory , composition , division , judgment , and ...
... likewise comprehends them all . For we form a history and tables of invention for anger , fear , shame , and the like , and also for examples in civil life , and the mental operations of memory , composition , division , judgment , and ...
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... likewise in con- stant motion . It is also shown in the excitement or increase of heat by motion , as by bellows and draughts : for which see Inst . 29 , Tab . 3. , and by other species of motion , as in Inst . 28 and 31 , Tab . 3. It ...
... likewise in con- stant motion . It is also shown in the excitement or increase of heat by motion , as by bellows and draughts : for which see Inst . 29 , Tab . 3. , and by other species of motion , as in Inst . 28 and 31 , Tab . 3. It ...
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... likewise of Coition and Expansion of Matter by Spaces . The History of Heavy and Light . The History of the Sympathy and Antipathy of Things . The History of Sulphur , Mercury , and Salt . The History of Life and Death . THE NATURAL AND ...
... likewise of Coition and Expansion of Matter by Spaces . The History of Heavy and Light . The History of the Sympathy and Antipathy of Things . The History of Sulphur , Mercury , and Salt . The History of Life and Death . THE NATURAL AND ...
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... likewise to cast away so much as the thought of philosophy , or at least to hope but for slender and small fruits thereof , until a diligent and ap- proved natural and experimental history be acquired and made up . For what would these ...
... likewise to cast away so much as the thought of philosophy , or at least to hope but for slender and small fruits thereof , until a diligent and ap- proved natural and experimental history be acquired and made up . For what would these ...
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... Likewise there came this thought into my mind , namely , that there are questionless in Europe many capable , free , sublimed , subtile , solid , constant wits ; and what if any one endued with such a wit do betake himself to the use ...
... Likewise there came this thought into my mind , namely , that there are questionless in Europe many capable , free , sublimed , subtile , solid , constant wits ; and what if any one endued with such a wit do betake himself to the use ...
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Página 131 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 25 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 26 - Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment rather than to the sciences. For our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discovered, and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations.
Página 32 - ... infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same inability of thought to stop.
Página 31 - Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men's minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre. For we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a...
Página 62 - ... the shortness of life, the deception of the senses, and weakness of the judgment. They think, therefore, that in the revolutions of ages and of the world there are certain floods and ebbs of the sciences, and that they grow and flourish at one...
Página 83 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Página 364 - Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated, but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good ; therefore they which fix and propound to themselves some end, as the mark and scope of their life, and continually and by degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, they commonly droop, and live not long...
Página 35 - For men imagine that their reason governs words, whilst, in fact, words react upon the understanding ; and this has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Página 27 - ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general...