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... writes : " But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and ... writing will continue to be of lasting xvi INTRODUCTION.
... writes : " But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and ... writing will continue to be of lasting xvi INTRODUCTION.
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Francis Bacon. optimism that his writing will continue to be of lasting value.1 1. The Advancement of Learning 2 The ... writer's essay on Francis Bacon and the Modern Spirit , Journal of Philosophy , vol . XIV , no . 19 : September 13 ...
Francis Bacon. optimism that his writing will continue to be of lasting value.1 1. The Advancement of Learning 2 The ... writer's essay on Francis Bacon and the Modern Spirit , Journal of Philosophy , vol . XIV , no . 19 : September 13 ...
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... write a history of mvhat men knew , wrote one of what they had to learn . ' che classification is based on the faculties of the human mind . " The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding , which ...
... write a history of mvhat men knew , wrote one of what they had to learn . ' che classification is based on the faculties of the human mind . " The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding , which ...
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... write a history of what men knew , wrote one of what they had to learn . ' The classification is based on the faculties of the human mind . " The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding , which ...
... write a history of what men knew , wrote one of what they had to learn . ' The classification is based on the faculties of the human mind . " The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding , which ...
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... writes Bacon : " For I find a certain rhapsody of Natural Theology , and of divers parts of Logic ; and of that part of Natural Philosophy which concerneth the Principles , and of that other part of Natural Philosophy which concerneth ...
... writes Bacon : " For I find a certain rhapsody of Natural Theology , and of divers parts of Logic ; and of that part of Natural Philosophy which concerneth the Principles , and of that other part of Natural Philosophy which concerneth ...
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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
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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.