 I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...  An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon - Page 57by James Spedding - 1878Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...and discoveries, the best state of that province." A few years afterwards he sent these letters to Dr. Playfair, Lady Margaret's professor, to be translated... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, pkilanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philant hropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...with frivolous dispu: " tations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other " with blind experiments, and auricular traditions " and impostures, hath committed...curiosity, or vain glory, or " nature, or (if one take it favourably) Philantb.ro" pia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be re" moved." After the lapse of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and impostures, hath committed...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, phitanthropia is so fixed in my -mind, as it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1826 - 542 pages
...This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, pkilanthropia, is so fixed .in my mind as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see, that place of any 342 reasonable countenance doth bring commandment of more wits than a man's own ; which is the thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
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