 | 1785 - 552 pages
...for the moft fub" lime and divine philofophers, Heraclitus gave " a juft cenfure, faying, men fought truth in their " own little worlds, and not in the great and common " world."* But, without depreciating metaphyfics, a fcience which I have always ftudied with delight, and which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heruclitus gave a just censure, saying, " Men sought truth in...little worlds, and not in the great and common world." 7- The tainting doctrines with favourite opinions. 8. Impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion.... | |
 | William Scott - 1837 - 382 pages
...time, commonly, sciences receive small or no augmentation ;"* also of his condemnation of those who " disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read, in the volume of God's works ; and who, contrariwise, by continual meditation and agitation of wit, do urge, and, as it were, invocate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Ileraclitus gave a just censure, saying, " Men sought truth in...little worlds, and not in the great and common world j" for they disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works j and contrariwise,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...own reason and conceits. Upon these intellectualists which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitus...for they disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read m the volume of God's works : and contrariwise, by continual meditation, and agitation of wit, do urge... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...would do well to heed the reproof given by that master-mind in philosophy, Lord Bacon, to those who " disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read, in the volume of God's works, and who, contrariwise, by continual meditation and agitation of wit, do urge, and, as it were, invocate... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pages
...own reason and conceits. Upon these Intellectualiste, which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for the most sublime and divine Philosophers, Heraclitus...great and common world ;' for they disdain to spell, * Tiedemann, in bis Work on Hie Spirit of Speculative Philoiophy, regards the Plotinian system as gross... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...the human mind 173 Upon these inicllcctualisti, which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for tlte most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave...sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in f the gnat and common world," I 7,) The tainting doctrines with favourite opinions. ( 8.) Impatience... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...which are, notwithstanding, commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitut n hos quœsitum munus in usus ;" it was not made for the countries which it governeth : hereof I 7. The tainting doctrines with favourite opinions. 8. Impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion.3... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...taken for the moft fublime and divine Philofophers, Heraditus gave a juft cenfure, faying, Men fought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world ; for they difdain to fpell, and fo by degrees to read in the volume of GOD'S works : and contrariwife, by continual... | |
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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... 
