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" We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life and knowledge... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works - Page 404
by Francis Bacon - 1862
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 9

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 846 pages
...observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. We have three that bind themselves to looking into the experiments of their fellows, and...of use and practice for man's life and knowledge. These we call Dowrymen, or Benefactors. Then, after divers meetings and consults of our whole number,...
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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 62

1903 - 618 pages
...give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. We have three that bend themselves, looking into the...easy and clear discovery of the virtues and parts of bodies. These we call Dowry-men or Benefactors. Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 pages
...the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. " We have three that bend themselves, looking into the...cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practise for man's life, and knowledge, as well for works as for plain demonstration of causes, means...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. 'We have three that bend themselves, looking into...easy and clear discovery of the virtues and parts of bodies [this is experientia literata}. These we call Dowry-men or Benefactors. 'Then after divers meetings...
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables. . . . These we call Compilers. "We have three that bend themselves, looking into...of use and practice for man's life and knowledge. . . . These we call dowry-men or Benefactors. "Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole...
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Even Odder Perceptions

Richard Langton Gregory - 1994 - 290 pages
...give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call compilers. We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and caste about how to draw out of them things of use and practice of man's life, and knowledge as well...
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Early American Writing

Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...the better light, for the drawing of Observations and Axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. We have Three that bend themselves, Looking into the Experiments of their Fellowes, and cast about how to draw out of them Things of Use, and Practice for Man's life. . . ....
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...experience compiled above. Their exercise of "learned experience" is seen in the way in which they "bend themselves, looking into the experiments of...demonstration of causes, means of natural divinations [predictions), and the easy and clear discovery of the virtues and parts of bodies" (III, 165). The...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...the drawing of observations and axioms out of them. These we call Compilers. "We have three that look into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about...works as for plain demonstration of causes, means of predictions, and the easy and clear discovery of the properties and parts of bodies. These we call...
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Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences

John Willinsky - 2000 - 228 pages
...give better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them," and the Benefactors, who "cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life and knowledge " 9 Bacon's New Atlantis bore the subtitle Work Unfinished, and it is as wise a disclaimer as I can...
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