The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1Baynes and son, 1824 |
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... matter and mechanism : and thus they might come insensibly to forget or neglect the great original cause of all . This kind of reasoning con- vinced the multitude , over - awed the wiser few , and effectually put a stop to the progress ...
... matter and mechanism : and thus they might come insensibly to forget or neglect the great original cause of all . This kind of reasoning con- vinced the multitude , over - awed the wiser few , and effectually put a stop to the progress ...
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... matter of a true and useful philosophy . With this view only did our author make and gather toge- ther the miscellaneous collection I am speaking of . That many particular experiments have been found doubtful or false , cannot be ...
... matter of a true and useful philosophy . With this view only did our author make and gather toge- ther the miscellaneous collection I am speaking of . That many particular experiments have been found doubtful or false , cannot be ...
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... matter seem the better , and to suppress truth by force of eloquence and speech . But these , and the like imputations , have rather a countenance of gravity , than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that , both in ...
... matter seem the better , and to suppress truth by force of eloquence and speech . But these , and the like imputations , have rather a countenance of gravity , than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that , both in ...
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... matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so , by like reason , it cannot be but a matter of doubtful consequence , if states be managed by empiric statesmen , not well mingled with men ...
... matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so , by like reason , it cannot be but a matter of doubtful consequence , if states be managed by empiric statesmen , not well mingled with men ...
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... matter , or words : so that in reason , as well as in experience , there fall out to be these three dis- tempers , as I may term them , of learning : the first , fantastical learning ; the second , contentious learning ; and the last ...
... matter , or words : so that in reason , as well as in experience , there fall out to be these three dis- tempers , as I may term them , of learning : the first , fantastical learning ; the second , contentious learning ; and the last ...
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