The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1858 |
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... taken pains to make them substantially accurate , and have never wittingly allowed a sentence to stand in which the meaning seemed to me to be misrepresented , I have not hesitated on the other hand to vary the form of expression ...
... taken pains to make them substantially accurate , and have never wittingly allowed a sentence to stand in which the meaning seemed to me to be misrepresented , I have not hesitated on the other hand to vary the form of expression ...
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... taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the ...
... taken upon them to lay down the law with such confidence , yet when from time to time they come to themselves again , they fall to complaints of the subtlety of nature , the hiding - places of truth , the obscurity of things , the ...
21. oldal
... taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human wit , but with reverence in the greater world . But it is the empty things that are vast : things solid are most contracted ...
... taken up by another ) ; and finally that it seeks for the sciences not arrogantly in the little cells of human wit , but with reverence in the greater world . But it is the empty things that are vast : things solid are most contracted ...
24. oldal
... taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formulæ of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its ...
... taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formulæ of disputation . I on the contrary reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its ...
26. oldal
... taken by the intellect when left to go its own way , but I hold it for sus- pected , and no way established , until it has submitted to a new trial and a fresh judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the ...
... taken by the intellect when left to go its own way , but I hold it for sus- pected , and no way established , until it has submitted to a new trial and a fresh judgment has been thereupon pronounced . And lastly , the information of the ...
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252. oldal - For man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired ; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences.
410. oldal - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
104. oldal - But for my part I do not trouble myself with any such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary, is to try whether I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man.
367. oldal - For to say that the hairs of the eyelids are for a quickset and fence about the sight; or that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold; or that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
60. oldal - ... extreme admiration of antiquity, others to an extreme love and appetite for novelty; but few so duly tempered that they can hold the mean, neither carping at what has been well laid down by the ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy: since these affectations of antiquity and novelty are the...
60. oldal - But the Idols of the Market-place arc the most troublesome of all : idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words ; but it is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
58. oldal - But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dulness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses ; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important.
388. oldal - The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they were judged by recovery or death.
58. oldal - Such then are the idols which I call Idols of the Tribe; and which take their rise either from the homogeneity of the substance of the human spirit, or from its preoccupation, or from its narrowness, or from its restless motion, or from an infusion of the affections, or from the incompetency of the senses, or from the mode of impression.