The Works, Հատոր 4Longman, 1858 |
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Արդյունքներ 49–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
Էջ 18
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
Էջ 25
... 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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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.