| Francis Bacon - 1802 - 296 pages
...study of the works and creatures erf God;" and in effecting the object of this new società, umidi is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things, and the enlarging ff the bounds of human empire to the accomplishment of ail kings poteilile, he giva afmished example... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...employments and functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " THE end of our foundation is the knowledge...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains : so that if you reckon gether the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...and functions whereto our " fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinances " and rites which we observe. " THE end of our foundation is the knowledge...of " causes, and secret motions of things; and the en" larging of the bounds of human empire, to the " effecting of all things possible. " some of them... | |
| 1841 - 468 pages
...the inquiring traveller an institution which he calls Solomon's House. Of this institution he says, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging the bounds of the human empire to effecting of things possible." A strikingly beautiful parallel is... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...and functions whereto our " fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinances " and rites which we observe. " THE end of our foundation is the knowledge...of " causes, and secret motions of things ; and the en" larging of the bounds of human empire, to the " effecting of all things possible. " THE preparations... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 566 pages
...and functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinajico.s amijiíff e which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " We have burials in several earths, where we put divers cements, as the Chineses do their porcellane.... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites " which we observe. " THE end of our foundation is the know" ledge of causes, and secret motions of things; " and the...preparations and instruments are these. " We have large and deep caves of several depths : " the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom; and " some of them... | |
| William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...institution to the inquiring traveller, describes it by the name of Solomon's House; and says *, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging the bounds of the human empire to effecting of things possible." And, as parts of this House, he describes... | |
| 1843 - 744 pages
...both its credenda and its agenda; its researches are both luoifera and fructifera ; its end is both " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,...the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all thmgs possible." * The latter of these was a continual subject of high and bright anticipation to Lord... | |
| Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 pages
...employments and functions whereto our fellows are assigned ; and fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, 28 and the en M Solomon's House, therefore, was simply a college, institute for the study of natural... | |
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