The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen14W. Pickering, 1831 |
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... similar to which is to be met with on earth , at least as regards earthly objects . But that errors which have gained firm ground , and will for ever continue to gain ground , would , if the mind were left to itself , successively ...
... similar to which is to be met with on earth , at least as regards earthly objects . But that errors which have gained firm ground , and will for ever continue to gain ground , would , if the mind were left to itself , successively ...
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... similar meditations , he determined to publish whatsoever he had first time to conclude . Nor is this the haste of ambition , but of his anxiety , that if the common lot of mankind should befall him , some sketch and determination of ...
... similar meditations , he determined to publish whatsoever he had first time to conclude . Nor is this the haste of ambition , but of his anxiety , that if the common lot of mankind should befall him , some sketch and determination of ...
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... similar to that we experience by our senses : and thus but little is left for the powers and excellence of wit . And we have in teaching continued to show forth the humility , which we adopt in discovering . For we do not endeavour to ...
... similar to that we experience by our senses : and thus but little is left for the powers and excellence of wit . And we have in teaching continued to show forth the humility , which we adopt in discovering . For we do not endeavour to ...
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... similar pageant , and men were to attempt it with their bare hands , would not any sober spectator avow it to be an act of the greatest madness ? And if they should increase the number of workmen , and imagine that they could thus ...
... similar pageant , and men were to attempt it with their bare hands , would not any sober spectator avow it to be an act of the greatest madness ? And if they should increase the number of workmen , and imagine that they could thus ...
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... similar nature , encourage discussion , embellish harangues , are employed and are of service in the duties of the pro- fessor , and the affairs of civil life . Nay , we openly ex- press and declare that the philosophy we offer will not ...
... similar nature , encourage discussion , embellish harangues , are employed and are of service in the duties of the pro- fessor , and the affairs of civil life . Nay , we openly ex- press and declare that the philosophy we offer will not ...
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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...