Bacon SelectionsC. Scribner's Sons, 1928 - 432 Seiten |
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Seite ix
... mean the recognition of similitudes and at the same time sufficiently steady 1 James Spedding , The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon , vol . I , p . 4 . and concentrated for the observation of subtle shades of difference INTRODUCTION ...
... mean the recognition of similitudes and at the same time sufficiently steady 1 James Spedding , The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon , vol . I , p . 4 . and concentrated for the observation of subtle shades of difference INTRODUCTION ...
Seite x
... means for the realiza- tion of his life purpose . The means came near destroy- ing the end . It is doubtful whether , but for his public disgrace , he would ever have retired from political life in order to devote himself to philosophy ...
... means for the realiza- tion of his life purpose . The means came near destroy- ing the end . It is doubtful whether , but for his public disgrace , he would ever have retired from political life in order to devote himself to philosophy ...
Seite xi
... means of honour or profit , save only one dry reversion of the Register's Office in the Star Chamber , worth about 1600 l . per annum , for which he waited in expectation either fully or near twenty years ; . . . which might be imputed ...
... means of honour or profit , save only one dry reversion of the Register's Office in the Star Chamber , worth about 1600 l . per annum , for which he waited in expectation either fully or near twenty years ; . . . which might be imputed ...
Seite xxx
... means . The regenera- tion of the social and moral sciences is as much a part of the Baconian scheme of reform as ... mean that the other sciences , logic , ethics , and politics , should be carried on by this method . Now I certainly ...
... means . The regenera- tion of the social and moral sciences is as much a part of the Baconian scheme of reform as ... mean that the other sciences , logic , ethics , and politics , should be carried on by this method . Now I certainly ...
Seite xxxii
... means of which sensory data are produced is entirely unknown and lies wholly beyond the range and power of scientific discovery . Neither the source from which sense qualities spring nor the 1 Novum Organum , Bk . II , Aph . II , vol ...
... means of which sensory data are produced is entirely unknown and lies wholly beyond the range and power of scientific discovery . Neither the source from which sense qualities spring nor the 1 Novum Organum , Bk . II , Aph . II , vol ...
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.