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11. oldal
... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
... doubt there is something of accident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say But for this accident which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ascribed ...
15. oldal
... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the time and the multitude ...
18. oldal
... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old ...
... doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former ages when men sailed only by observation of the stars , they could indeed coast along the shores of the old ...
24. oldal
... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe- matical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ...
25. oldal
... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to nature , though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are not ...
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54. oldal - ... owing either to his own proper and peculiar nature; or to his education and conversation with others; or to the reading of books, and the authority of those whom he esteems and admires; or to the differences of impressions, accordingly as they take place in a mind preoccupied and predisposed or in a mind indifferent and settled ; or the like.
396. oldal - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
97. oldal - For the lowest axioms differ but slightly from bare experience, while the highest and most general (which we now have) are notional and abstract and without solidity. But the middle are the true and solid and living axioms, on which depend the affairs and fortunes of men...
137. oldal - For since the Form of a thing is the very thing itself, and the thing differs from the form no otherwise than as the apparent differs from the real, or the external from the internal, or the thing in reference to man from the thing in reference to the universe...
338. oldal - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
384. 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.
315. oldal - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
32. oldal - And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world...
29. oldal - Nay (to say the plain truth) I do in fact (low and vulgar as men may think it) count more upon this part both for helps and safeguards than upon the other ; seeing that the nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
47. oldal - Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be . produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.