The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... nature . The author has , besides , made use of several terms in a new and peculiar sense , which may have discouraged some readers , as it has made others ima- gine them equally unintelligible with the horrors of a vacuum , the ...
... nature . The author has , besides , made use of several terms in a new and peculiar sense , which may have discouraged some readers , as it has made others ima- gine them equally unintelligible with the horrors of a vacuum , the ...
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... nature itself by experiment and inquiry . As it differs from the vulgar logic in its aim , it varies no less from that captious art in the form of demonstrating for it generally rejects syllo- gism , as an instrument rather hurtful than ...
... nature itself by experiment and inquiry . As it differs from the vulgar logic in its aim , it varies no less from that captious art in the form of demonstrating for it generally rejects syllo- gism , as an instrument rather hurtful than ...
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... nature ; that of pre- ter - generations , or of births deviating from the stated rule ; and thirdly , the history of nature as confined or assisted , changed or tortured by the art of man : which last discloses to us a new face of ...
... nature ; that of pre- ter - generations , or of births deviating from the stated rule ; and thirdly , the history of nature as confined or assisted , changed or tortured by the art of man : which last discloses to us a new face of ...
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... nature knoweth all things , and hath but her own native and original notions ( which by the strange- ness and darkness of this tabernacle of the body are sequestered ) again revived and restored : such a light of nature I have observed ...
... nature knoweth all things , and hath but her own native and original notions ( which by the strange- ness and darkness of this tabernacle of the body are sequestered ) again revived and restored : such a light of nature I have observed ...
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... nature of things : for these limitations are three : the first , that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge , as we forget our mortality . The second , that we make application of our knowledge , to give ourselves repose and ...
... nature of things : for these limitations are three : the first , that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge , as we forget our mortality . The second , that we make application of our knowledge , to give ourselves repose and ...
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