The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... doth insinuate , that the supreme or summary law of nature , which he calleth , The work which God worketh from the beginning to the end , is not possible to be found out by man ; yet that doth not derogate from the capacity of the mind ...
... doth insinuate , that the supreme or summary law of nature , which he calleth , The work which God worketh from the beginning to the end , is not possible to be found out by man ; yet that doth not derogate from the capacity of the mind ...
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... doth excellently expound himself in another place of the same book , where he saith ; I saw well that knowledge recedeth as far from ignorance , as light doth from darkness ; and that the wiseman's eyes keep watch in his head , whereas ...
... doth excellently expound himself in another place of the same book , where he saith ; I saw well that knowledge recedeth as far from ignorance , as light doth from darkness ; and that the wiseman's eyes keep watch in his head , whereas ...
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... doth the sense dis- cover natural things , but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine . " And hence it is true , that it hath proceeded , that divers great learned men have been heretical , whilst they have sought to fly up to the secrets ...
... doth the sense dis- cover natural things , but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine . " And hence it is true , that it hath proceeded , that divers great learned men have been heretical , whilst they have sought to fly up to the secrets ...
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... doth soften mens minds , and makes them more unapt for the honour and exercise of arms ; that it doth mar and pervert mens dispositions for matter of govern- ment and policy , in making them too curious and irresolute by variety of ...
... doth soften mens minds , and makes them more unapt for the honour and exercise of arms ; that it doth mar and pervert mens dispositions for matter of govern- ment and policy , in making them too curious and irresolute by variety of ...
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... doth make the minds of men gentle , generous , maniable , and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish , thwarting , and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion , considering that the most ...
... doth make the minds of men gentle , generous , maniable , and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish , thwarting , and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion , considering that the most ...
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