Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... science , or positive knowledge , especially , are always to some extent super- seded , at least for their main or primary purpose , by the growth or extension of that very branch of knowledge which they may have been the first to set ...
... science , or positive knowledge , especially , are always to some extent super- seded , at least for their main or primary purpose , by the growth or extension of that very branch of knowledge which they may have been the first to set ...
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... sciences . This is it , I say , that leads the under- standing of man by an easy and gentle passage through all novel and abstruse inventions which any way differ from com- mon received opinions . Therefore in the first ages ( when many ...
... sciences . This is it , I say , that leads the under- standing of man by an easy and gentle passage through all novel and abstruse inventions which any way differ from com- mon received opinions . Therefore in the first ages ( when many ...
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... sciences have their works and human counsels their ends which they earnestly hunt after . All natural things have either their food as a prey , or their pleasure as a recreation which they seek for , and that in most expert and ...
... sciences have their works and human counsels their ends which they earnestly hunt after . All natural things have either their food as a prey , or their pleasure as a recreation which they seek for , and that in most expert and ...
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... Sciences ) , in nine Books , re- garded as forming the First Part of the Instauratio Magna ; and also his ' Historia Vitae et Mortis ' ( History of Life and Death ) , arranged as another portion of the Third Part of that work . Various ...
... Sciences ) , in nine Books , re- garded as forming the First Part of the Instauratio Magna ; and also his ' Historia Vitae et Mortis ' ( History of Life and Death ) , arranged as another portion of the Third Part of that work . Various ...
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... science hath an exercise of eru- dition and initiation before men come to the life ; only preach- ing , which is the worthiest , and wherein it is most danger to do amiss , wanteth an introduction , and is ventured and rushed upon at ...
... science hath an exercise of eru- dition and initiation before men come to the life ; only preach- ing , which is the worthiest , and wherein it is most danger to do amiss , wanteth an introduction , and is ventured and rushed upon at ...
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Page 41 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 85 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested — that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 54 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 85 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 43 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Page 57 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate.
Page 53 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 32 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page 53 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 79 - ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...