SelectionsC. Scribner's sons, 1928 - 430 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 78
Seite 6
... opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but abso- lutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admi ...
... opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want , and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future , it becomes a thing not only useful , but abso- lutely necessary , that the excess of honour and admi ...
Seite 8
... opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let it not be said that the sciences have been ...
... opinion , from that time they make no enlargement of the sciences themselves , but fall to the servile office of embellishing certain individual authors and increasing their retinue . And let it not be said that the sciences have been ...
Seite 12
... opinion , is not nearly subtle enough to deal with nature ; and in offering at what it cannot master , has done more to establish and per- petuate error than to open the way to truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have ...
... opinion , is not nearly subtle enough to deal with nature ; and in offering at what it cannot master , has done more to establish and per- petuate error than to open the way to truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have ...
Seite 14
... opinion , and against my own private and inward hesita- tions and scruples , and against the fogs and clouds of nature , and the phantoms flitting about on every side ; in the hope of providing at last for the present and future ...
... opinion , and against my own private and inward hesita- tions and scruples , and against the fogs and clouds of nature , and the phantoms flitting about on every side ; in the hope of providing at last for the present and future ...
Seite 17
... opinion , to join in consultation for the common good ; and being now freed and guarded by the securities and helps which I offer from the errors and impediments of the way , to come forward them- selves and take part in that which ...
... opinion , to join in consultation for the common good ; and being now freed and guarded by the securities and helps which I offer from the errors and impediments of the way , to come forward them- selves and take part in that which ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acatalepsia action Advancement of Learning ancient animals APHORISMS Aristotle arts Augustus Cæsar axioms Bacon better burning-glass Cæsar causes Cicero cold conceive concerning contemplation deficient degree Democritus Demosthenes discourse discovered discovery diurnal motion divine doctrine doth doubt effect error excellent experience fire flame fortune Francis Bacon hand hath heat honour human Idols ignited induction inquiry insomuch Instances intellectual invention judgment Julius Cæsar kind knowl knowledge labour Latent Process laws less light likewise logic man's manner matter means men's ment Metaphysic method mind motion natural history natural philosophy Natural Theology Novum Organum observed operation opinion particular Plato precept Professor of English rays reason rest saith sciences seemeth sense simple natures speak spirit spirit of wine subjoin substances subtlety syllogism Tacitus things tion touching true truth understanding University unto virtue wherein whereof wisdom words
Beliebte Passagen
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.