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7. oldal
... force of the understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores ...
... force of the understanding or by help of the aids and instruments of Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores ...
18. oldal
... force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the ...
... force of man's judgment nor even any accidental felicity offers any chance of success . No excellence of wit , no repetition of chance experiments , can overcome such difficulties as these . Our steps must be guided by a clue , and the ...
19. oldal
... force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock ...
... force or ensnare men's judgments , but I lead them to things themselves and the concordances of things , that they may see for themselves what they have , what they can dispute , what they can add and contribute to the common stock ...
32. oldal
... force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those twin objects , human Knowledge and human Power , do really meet in one ; and it is from ignorance of causes that operation fails . And all ...
... force be loosed or broken , nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed . And so those twin objects , human Knowledge and human Power , do really meet in one ; and it is from ignorance of causes that operation fails . And all ...
39. oldal
... . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . - - - Now my method , though hard to practise , 39.
... . And yet they too , trusting entirely to the force of their understanding , applied no rule , but made everything turn upon hard thinking and perpetual working and exercise of the mind . - - - Now my method , though hard to practise , 39.
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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.