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... race ; an idea to live in vast and lofty enough to fill the soul forever with religious and 1 Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon , vol . I , p . 4 . heroic aspirations . subject to interruptions , disappointments , errors viii INTRODUCTION.
... race ; an idea to live in vast and lofty enough to fill the soul forever with religious and 1 Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon , vol . I , p . 4 . heroic aspirations . subject to interruptions , disappointments , errors viii INTRODUCTION.
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Francis Bacon. heroic aspirations . subject to interruptions , disappointments , errors and regrets , he would never be without either work or hope or consolation . " 1 From that moment , though still Spedding's judgment of the ...
Francis Bacon. heroic aspirations . subject to interruptions , disappointments , errors and regrets , he would never be without either work or hope or consolation . " 1 From that moment , though still Spedding's judgment of the ...
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... error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge . For men have entered into 1 Advancement of Learning , vol . III , p . 273 . 2 Ibid . , vol . III , p . 291 . b " 1 undertaking , we shall ...
... error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge . For men have entered into 1 Advancement of Learning , vol . III , p . 273 . 2 Ibid . , vol . III , p . 291 . b " 1 undertaking , we shall ...
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... error hath proceeded from too great a reverence , and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man ; by means whereof men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature and the observation of experience ...
... error hath proceeded from too great a reverence , and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man ; by means whereof men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature and the observation of experience ...
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... errors Division Four : Human Philosophy I. Man as individual 1. Close relation of body and mind 2. Body a . Medicine b . Cosmetic c . Athletic d . Arts of pleasure sensual 3. Mind a . Substance of the mind ( 1 ) . Divination ( 2 ) ...
... errors Division Four : Human Philosophy I. Man as individual 1. Close relation of body and mind 2. Body a . Medicine b . Cosmetic c . Athletic d . Arts of pleasure sensual 3. Mind a . Substance of the mind ( 1 ) . Divination ( 2 ) ...
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Seite 65 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Seite 91 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
Seite 61 - And of the like nature was the answer which Aristippus made, when having a petition to Dionysius...
Seite 94 - OF FRANCIS BACON OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING DIVINE AND HUMAN.
Seite 278 - 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.
Seite 14 - I would address one general admonition to all ; that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that O ' they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or •fame, or power, or any of these inferior things ; but for the benefit and use of life ; and that they perfect and •govern it in chanty.
Seite xxxvi - Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world'; for they disdain to spell and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works; and contrariwise by continual meditation and agitation of wit do urge and as it were inyocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.
Seite 87 - Great, after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious provinces in Asia, when he received letters out of Greece, of some fights and services there, which were commonly for a passage, or a fort, or some walled town at the most, he said, " It seemed to him, that he was advertised of the battle of the frogs and the mice, that the old tales went of.
Seite 383 - When I say of Motion that it is as the genus of which heat is a species, I would be understood to mean, not that heat generates motion or that motion generates heat (though both are true in certain cases), but that Heat itself, its essence and quiddity, is Motion and nothing else...
Seite 281 - 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.