The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon: Including the Advancement of Learning and Novum OrganumG. Bell and Sons, 1904 - 567 pages |
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... seem to have their Hercules ' Pillars , which bound the desires and hopes of mankind . But as a false imagination of plenty ... seems a civil representation of the present condition of knowledge ; for she exhibited the coun- tenance and ...
... seem to have their Hercules ' Pillars , which bound the desires and hopes of mankind . But as a false imagination of plenty ... seems a civil representation of the present condition of knowledge ; for she exhibited the coun- tenance and ...
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... seems adventitiously to acquire in life being nothing more than a return to her first conceptions , which had been overlaid by the grossness of the • See Numb . xxviii . 23 ; Levit . xxii . 18 . • Plato's Phædo , i . 72 ( Steph ...
... seems adventitiously to acquire in life being nothing more than a return to her first conceptions , which had been overlaid by the grossness of the • See Numb . xxviii . 23 ; Levit . xxii . 18 . • Plato's Phædo , i . 72 ( Steph ...
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... seems an impossibility in nature . As regards your readiness of speech , I am reminded of that saying of Tacitus concerning Augustus Cæsar , " Augusto profluens ut quæ principem virum deceret , eloquentia fuit . " For all eloquence ...
... seems an impossibility in nature . As regards your readiness of speech , I am reminded of that saying of Tacitus concerning Augustus Cæsar , " Augusto profluens ut quæ principem virum deceret , eloquentia fuit . " For all eloquence ...
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... seems very improbable . It is wrong to trust the natural body to empirics , who commonly have a few receipts whereon they rely , but who know neither the causes of diseases , nor the constitutions of patients , nor the danger of ...
... seems very improbable . It is wrong to trust the natural body to empirics , who commonly have a few receipts whereon they rely , but who know neither the causes of diseases , nor the constitutions of patients , nor the danger of ...
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... seems a good emblem of this vanity ; f for words are but the images of matter , and unless they have life of reason and invention , to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture . Yet the illustrating the obscurities of ...
... seems a good emblem of this vanity ; f for words are but the images of matter , and unless they have life of reason and invention , to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture . Yet the illustrating the obscurities of ...
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Page 68 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 32 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
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Page 45 - ... laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of...