The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen14W. Pickering, 1831 |
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... things , and innu- merable disadvantages , the consequence of such ignorance ; he thought that we ought to endeavour , with all our might , either ( if it were possible ) completely to restore , or , at all events , to bring to a better ...
... things , and innu- merable disadvantages , the consequence of such ignorance ; he thought that we ought to endeavour , with all our might , either ( if it were possible ) completely to restore , or , at all events , to bring to a better ...
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... things with so much confidence , will yet , when they occasionally return to their senses , begin to complain of the subtilty of nature , the remoteness of truth , the obscurity of things , the complication of causes , and the weakness ...
... things with so much confidence , will yet , when they occasionally return to their senses , begin to complain of the subtilty of nature , the remoteness of truth , the obscurity of things , the complication of causes , and the weakness ...
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... things them- selves and experience . For some again , who have com- mitted themselves to the waves of experience , and become almost mechanics , yet in their very experience employ an unsteady investigation , and war not with it by ...
... things them- selves and experience . For some again , who have com- mitted themselves to the waves of experience , and become almost mechanics , yet in their very experience employ an unsteady investigation , and war not with it by ...
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... things , abstract our understanding no fur- ther from them than is necessary to prevent the confusion of the images of things with their radiation , a confusion similar to that we experience by our senses : and thus but little is left ...
... things , abstract our understanding no fur- ther from them than is necessary to prevent the confusion of the images of things with their radiation , a confusion similar to that we experience by our senses : and thus but little is left ...
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... things . If therefore the no- tions of the mind ( which are as it were the soul of words , and the basis of this whole structure and fabric ) are badly and hastily abstracted from things , and vague , or not sufficiently defined and ...
... things . If therefore the no- tions of the mind ( which are as it were the soul of words , and the basis of this whole structure and fabric ) are badly and hastily abstracted from things , and vague , or not sufficiently defined and ...
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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...