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... rest of mankind . For , no sooner was any particular branch of learning ( diligently enough perhaps ) cultivated and la- boured , than up would spring some individual confident in his art , who would acquire authority and reputation ...
... rest of mankind . For , no sooner was any particular branch of learning ( diligently enough perhaps ) cultivated and la- boured , than up would spring some individual confident in his art , who would acquire authority and reputation ...
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... rest is deduced from them in- termediately , by a short way we allow , but an abrupt one , and impassable to nature , though easy and well suited to dispute . But by our method , axioms are raised up in gra- dual succession , so that we ...
... rest is deduced from them in- termediately , by a short way we allow , but an abrupt one , and impassable to nature , though easy and well suited to dispute . But by our method , axioms are raised up in gra- dual succession , so that we ...
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... rest contented with the immediate information of the senses if well directed . But we have resolved that true logic ought to enter upon the several provinces of the sciences with a greater command than is possessed by their first ...
... rest contented with the immediate information of the senses if well directed . But we have resolved that true logic ought to enter upon the several provinces of the sciences with a greater command than is possessed by their first ...
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... rest are being perfected , and is paid down as interest , until the principal can be raised . For we rush not so blindly to our object , as to neglect any thing useful on our way . We compose this fifth part of the work therefore of ...
... rest are being perfected , and is paid down as interest , until the principal can be raised . For we rush not so blindly to our object , as to neglect any thing useful on our way . We compose this fifth part of the work therefore of ...
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... rest . Wherefore if we labour in thy works , thou wilt make us partakers of that which thou beholdest and of thy rest . We humbly pray that our present disposition may continue firm , and that thou mayest be willing to endow thy family ...
... rest . Wherefore if we labour in thy works , thou wilt make us partakers of that which thou beholdest and of thy rest . We humbly pray that our present disposition may continue firm , and that thou mayest be willing to endow thy family ...
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Página 137 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 36 - ... idols of the market, from the commerce and association of men with each other; for men converse by means of language, but words are formed at the will of the generality, and there arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. Nor can the definitions and explanations with which learned men are wont to guard and protect themselves in some instances afford a complete remedy — words still manifestly force the understanding, throw everything into confusion,...
Página 31 - 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 38 - ... 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 37 - 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 similar nature can be still composed and made to. agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements...
Página 70 - The bee, a mean between both, extracts matter from the flowers of the garden and the field, but works and fashions it by its own efforts. The true labour of philosophy resembles hers, for it neither relies entirely or principally on the powers of the mind, nor yet lays up in the memory, the matter afforded by the experiments of natural history or mechanics in its raw state, but changes and works it in the understanding. We have good reason, therefore, to derive hope from a closer and purer alliance...
Página 89 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Página 370 - 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 41 - 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 33 - ... 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...