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... tion of the Resuscitatio . It is " translated into English by R. G. Gentleman . " Of this tract Archbishop Tennison , says , in his Baconiana : " The second section is the History of Winds , written in Latin by the Author , PREFACE . vii.
... tion of the Resuscitatio . It is " translated into English by R. G. Gentleman . " Of this tract Archbishop Tennison , says , in his Baconiana : " The second section is the History of Winds , written in Latin by the Author , PREFACE . vii.
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... tion of a varied and well considered experience . I for my part have supplied the instrument , the matter to be worked upon must be sought from things themselves . May the great and good God long preserve your majesty in safety . Your ...
... tion of a varied and well considered experience . I for my part have supplied the instrument , the matter to be worked upon must be sought from things themselves . May the great and good God long preserve your majesty in safety . Your ...
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... TION OVER THE NATURE OF THINGS . It appears to me that men know not either their acquire- ments or their powers , and trust too much to the former , and too little to the latter . Hence it arises that , either es- timating the arts they ...
... TION OVER THE NATURE OF THINGS . It appears to me that men know not either their acquire- ments or their powers , and trust too much to the former , and too little to the latter . Hence it arises that , either es- timating the arts they ...
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... tion to be a question , which instead of being solved by discussion becomes fixed and encouraged ; and every system of instruction successively handed down to us brings upon the stage the characters of master and scholar , not those of ...
... tion to be a question , which instead of being solved by discussion becomes fixed and encouraged ; and every system of instruction successively handed down to us brings upon the stage the characters of master and scholar , not those of ...
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... tion of Nature . 3. Phænomena of the Universe ; or , Natural and Expe- rimental History on which to found Philosophy . 4. Scale of the Understanding . 5. Precursors or Anticipations of the Second Philosophy . 6. Sound Philosophy , or ...
... tion of Nature . 3. Phænomena of the Universe ; or , Natural and Expe- rimental History on which to found Philosophy . 4. Scale of the Understanding . 5. Precursors or Anticipations of the Second Philosophy . 6. Sound Philosophy , or ...
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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...