 For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered...  Philosophical works - Page 276by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an inchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort ; and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. 14. The mind is more affected by affirmatives than negatives. (p) As was well answered by Diaguras... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an inchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose,... | |
 | William Samuel Cardell - 1825 - 276 pages
...early framers of speech. 10. Lord Bacon, speaking of the advancement of learning, says — "And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us, by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an inchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose,... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 pages
...nostrae vim, et notionem videtur. f De Nat. Deorum, Lib. i. cap. 26. * " And lastly," says Bacon, " let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort: and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. 14. The mind is more affected by affirmatives than negatives. (p) As was well answered by Diaguras... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...which, like a false or uneven mirror, are apt to distort the truth. ' The mind of man,' says Bacon, ' is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered or reduced.' * Before the time of Bacon, no attempt had been made to detect and enumerate these prejudices... | |
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...enumerate the prejudices and biases of the mind of man ; which, as the great Verulam truly observes, " is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass,...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered or reduced." The great protestant principle, since worked out so admirably by Chillingworth, is, in... | |
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