Works, Հատոր 8Taggard & Thompson, 1864 |
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Արդյունքներ 68–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspi- cions concerning matters long established , should have come ...
... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspi- cions concerning matters long established , should have come ...
Էջ 27
... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing PREFACE . 27.
... better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it were so ! But the truth is that this appropriating of the sciences has its origin in nothing PREFACE . 27.
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... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
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... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demon- strations nor ...
... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demon- strations nor ...
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... truth , I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways , and relying on the divine assistance have upheld my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own ...
... truth , I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitudes of the ways , and relying on the divine assistance have upheld my mind both against the shocks and embattled ranks of opinion , and against my own ...
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Էջ 67 - Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand.
Էջ 79 - The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist.
Էջ 36 - Of myself I say nothing ; but in behalf of the business which is «/ O * in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not an opinion to be held, but a work to be done ; and to be well assured that I am labouring to lay the foundation, not of any sect or doctrine, but of human utility and power.
Էջ 68 - It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Էջ 156 - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Էջ 80 - Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed towards both alike. Indeed in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two.
Էջ 440 - 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.
Էջ 86 - But the Idols of the Market-place are 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.
Էջ 155 - For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leave but little to individual excellence ; because it performs everything by the surest rules and demonstrations. And therefore I attribute my part in all this, as I have often said, rather to good luck than to ability, and account it a birth of time rather than of wit. For certainly chance has something to do with men's thoughts, as well as with their works and deeds.
Էջ 48 - 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.