Bacon SelectionsC. Scribner's Sons, 1928 - 432 Seiten |
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... ancient and medieval . As a reformation and a prophecy , it is the embodiment and prevision of what we now term modern . The spirit that breathes through the writings of Bacon is the spirit of modernity . Foremost among the ideas that ...
... ancient and medieval . As a reformation and a prophecy , it is the embodiment and prevision of what we now term modern . The spirit that breathes through the writings of Bacon is the spirit of modernity . Foremost among the ideas that ...
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... ancients in race , in character , and in training . In a situation like this , what is man's intellectual task ? It is not to create nor to invent ; it is to learn and to understand . Add to this the further consideration that the past ...
... ancients in race , in character , and in training . In a situation like this , what is man's intellectual task ? It is not to create nor to invent ; it is to learn and to understand . Add to this the further consideration that the past ...
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... ancient times , when the world is ancient , and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado , by a computation backward from ourselves . " 2 last criticism touches what Bacon conceives to be the true end of knowledge : " But ...
... ancient times , when the world is ancient , and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado , by a computation backward from ourselves . " 2 last criticism touches what Bacon conceives to be the true end of knowledge : " But ...
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... ancients . On this point Bacon is certainly right . Thales , for example , was accounted one of the Seven Wise Men on account of his scientific knowledge rather than for his political competence . The influence of learning on political ...
... ancients . On this point Bacon is certainly right . Thales , for example , was accounted one of the Seven Wise Men on account of his scientific knowledge rather than for his political competence . The influence of learning on political ...
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... ancient , middle , and modern . So far as I know this is the first use of a three - fold division of history . The division , however , does not correspond to our ancient , medieval , and modern , but to pre- classical , classical , and ...
... ancient , middle , and modern . So far as I know this is the first use of a three - fold division of history . The division , however , does not correspond to our ancient , medieval , and modern , but to pre- classical , classical , and ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acatalepsia action Advancement of Learning ages ancient antiquity Aristotle arts Augustus Cæsar axioms Bacon better body burning-glass Cæsar CARL VAN DOREN causes Cicero civil cold conceived contemplation deficient degree Democritus Demosthenes difference discourse discover discovery divine doctrine doth doubt effect errors excellent experience felicity fire flame former fortune Francis Bacon hand handled hath heat honour human Idols imagination induction inquiry Instances intellectual invention judgment Julius Cæsar kind knowl knowledge labour laws less light likewise logic man's manner matter means men's ment Metaphysic method mind moral motion natural history natural philosophy Natural Theology Novum Organum observation opinion particular Plato pleasure precept principles Professor of English reason rest saith sciences seemeth sense speak spirit substances syllogism Tacitus things thought tion touching true truth understanding University unto virtue whereas wherein whereof wisdom wise words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 79 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Seite 80 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Seite xix - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Seite 279 - Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand.
Seite xix - The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 283 - ... and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Seite 123 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Seite 93 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
Seite 237 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 237 - He that covereth a transgression seeketh love ; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.