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 to subscribe ; for they know this note of inconstancy and defection from that which they have long held shall dis- able them to do that good which otherwise they might do ; for such is the weakness of many , that their ministry ...
... science to subscribe ; for they know this note of inconstancy and defection from that which they have long held shall dis- able them to do that good which otherwise they might do ; for such is the weakness of many , that their ministry ...
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