Translations of the philosophical worksTaggard & Thompson, 1863 |
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Արդյունքներ 62–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 49
... Virtues as may be considered cardinal in nature . I mean those original passions or desires of matter which constitute the primary elements of na- ture ; such as Dense and Rare , Hot and Cold , Solid and Fluid , Heavy and Light , and ...
... Virtues as may be considered cardinal in nature . I mean those original passions or desires of matter which constitute the primary elements of na- ture ; such as Dense and Rare , Hot and Cold , Solid and Fluid , Heavy and Light , and ...
Էջ 52
... virtue of my continual conversancy with nature have a value beyond the pre- tensions of my wit , they will serve in the meantime for wayside inns , in which the mind may rest and refresh itself on its journey to more certain conclusions ...
... virtue of my continual conversancy with nature have a value beyond the pre- tensions of my wit , they will serve in the meantime for wayside inns , in which the mind may rest and refresh itself on its journey to more certain conclusions ...
Էջ 95
... virtues ; and both of them belong to those empty compendia of thought wherein the mind . rests , and whereby it is diverted from more solid pur- suits . It is to better purpose that the physicians be- stow their labour on the secondary ...
... virtues ; and both of them belong to those empty compendia of thought wherein the mind . rests , and whereby it is diverted from more solid pur- suits . It is to better purpose that the physicians be- stow their labour on the secondary ...
Էջ 120
... virtues and operations ; and if ever they have produced works , they have been such as aim rather at admiration and novelty than at utility and fruit . In superstitious magic on the other hand ( if of this also we must speak ) , it is ...
... virtues and operations ; and if ever they have produced works , they have been such as aim rather at admiration and novelty than at utility and fruit . In superstitious magic on the other hand ( if of this also we must speak ) , it is ...
Էջ 152
... virtue , and yet of no use except in their development . And the scattered rays of light itself , until they are made to converge , can impart none of their benefit . But if objection be taken to speculative subtleties , what 152 ...
... virtue , and yet of no use except in their development . And the scattered rays of light itself , until they are made to converge , can impart none of their benefit . But if objection be taken to speculative subtleties , what 152 ...
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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.