Translations of the philosophical worksTaggard & Thompson, 1863 |
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Արդյունքներ 67–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... course left , therefore , to try the whole thing anew upon a better plan , and to commence a total recon- struction ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contemplation are much — like those two ways of action ...
... course left , therefore , to try the whole thing anew upon a better plan , and to commence a total recon- struction ... courses which have no exit . And certainly the two ways of contemplation are much — like those two ways of action ...
Էջ 27
... 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 ...
Էջ 28
... 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 28 PREFACE .
... 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 28 PREFACE .
Էջ 31
... 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 experi- ments as laboriously as he will , he never ...
... 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 experi- ments as laboriously as he will , he never ...
Էջ 48
... course and does her work her own way ) , such as that of the heavenly bodies , meteors , earth and sea , minerals , plants , ani- mals , 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 , ani- mals , 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 67 - 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.
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 147 - I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man. And although on some special subjects and in an incomplete form I am in possession of results which I take to be far more true and more certain...
Էջ 71 - There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms.
Էջ 81 - The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world; but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond.
Էջ 78 - Nor is it only of the systems now in vogue, or only of the ancient sects and philosophies, that I speak ; for many more plays of the same kind may yet be composed and in like artificial manner set forth ; seeing that errors the most widely different have nevertheless causes for the most part alike. Neither again do I mean this only of entire systems, but also of many principles and axioms in science, which by tradition, credulity, and negligence have come to be received.
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 76 - There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names, — calling the first class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Marketplace; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.
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.
Էջ 34 - I, on the contrary, dwelling purely and constantly among the facts of nature, withdraw my intellect from them no further than may suffice to let the images and rays of natural objects meet in a point, as they do in the sense of vision ; whence it follows that the strength and excellency of the wit has but little to do in the matter.