The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes by the Late Robert Leslie Ellis, Together with English Translations of the Principal Latin Pieces, Հատոր 4Longman & Company, 1861 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... , 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 , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
... , 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 , is D 4 39 PREFACE.
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Էջ 92 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the ~reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
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 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 396 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
Էջ 55 - There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market-place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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.
Էջ 110 - 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 63 - For the Rational School of philosophers snatches from experience a variety of common instances, neither duly ascertained nor diligently examined and weighed, and leaves all the rest to meditation and agitation of wit.
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.