The Works, Հատոր 4Longman, 1858 |
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... by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4 7 .
... by and throw away those true powers , which , if it be supplied with the proper aids and can itself be content to wait upon nature instead of vainly affecting to overrule her , are within its reach . There was but one course B 4 7 .
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Francis Bacon. are within its reach . There was but one course left , therefore , — to try the whole thing anew upon ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ways of action ...
Francis Bacon. are within its reach . There was but one course left , therefore , — to try the whole thing anew upon ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contem- plation are much like those two ways of action ...
Էջ 15
... course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and that there being now no room for the invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it ...
... course being completed ) have settled in the works of a few writers ; and that there being now no room for the invention of better , all that remains is to embellish and cultivate those things which have been invented already . Would it ...
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... course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilful in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes ...
... course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilful in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will , he never comes ...
Էջ 29
... course and does her work her own way ) , — such as that of the heavenly bodies , meteors , earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of ...
... course and does her work her own way ) , — such as that of the heavenly bodies , meteors , earth and sea , minerals , plants , animals , -but much more of nature under constraint and vexed ; that is to say , when by art and the hand of ...
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Էջ 489 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Էջ 409 - So that it was no marvel, the manner of antiquity being to consecrate inventors, that the Egyptians had so few human idols in their temples, but almost all brute. Omnigenumque Deum monstra, et latrator Anubis, Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, contraque Minervam...
Էջ 248 - 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.
Էջ 396 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
Էջ 32 - 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...
Էջ 338 - 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.
Էջ 93 - ... power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never yet been made), much may be hoped.
Էջ 29 - 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.
Էջ 384 - 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.
Էջ 315 - 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.