 The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 97by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...several depths : the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you reckon... | |
 | 1888 - 738 pages
...mankind over the world " ; " a restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature " ; " the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." The ethics of the industrial education is expressed in two words used by Macaulay as descriptive of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,"1 and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...several depths: the deepest, are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' TTia Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren of practical... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...several depths ; the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are dug and made under great hills and mountains, so that if you reckon together... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 688 pages
...THE end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; ,the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." In these words Francis Bacon in "The New Atalantis ' ' summed up the aims of what he called "Salomon's... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 662 pages
...end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, an<l the enlirging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, live... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 558 pages
...end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...object of the House to be " the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Here the literary interest ceases : for the rest of the fragment consists of little more than an enumeration... | |
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