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" 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: Lord Chancellor of England - Page 364
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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Francis Bacon und seine geschichtliche Stellung: ein analytischer Versuch

Hans Heussler - 1889 - 216 pages
...III p. 156: „The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of tihngs; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible;" Sap. Vet.': Sphinx s. Scientia, VI p. 679: „verae enim philosophiae naturalis finis proprius et ultimus...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...mankind over the world." 1 " A restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature." 2 " The enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." 3 From the enlargement of reason, he did not separate the growth of virtue; for he thought that " truth...
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Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All ...

Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1892 - 580 pages
...words imputed to the president or father of the house, 'the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human...empire to the effecting of all things possible.' The fellows cî the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants of light, as...
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The Columbus of Literature

William Francis C. Wigston - 1892 - 270 pages
...represent and imitate all artificial sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds." " We have large and deep caves 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...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - 1896 - 294 pages
...And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " 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 eifecting of all things possible, v " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and...
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A School History of English Literature, Volume 2

Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 pages
...the world".1 The end of their foundation was the "knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible". That indeed was the object of all Bacon's philosophy. The rest of the fragment — for the work is...
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IDEAL EMPIRES AND REPUBLICS

CHARLES M. ANDREWS, PhD - 1901 - 376 pages
...And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms; and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon...
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Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social ..., Volume 10

1901 - 344 pages
...And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. B The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest...
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Ideal Empires and Republics: Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia ...

1901 - 352 pages
...And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the iK-,-. ...bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments...
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The Tragedy of Sir Francis Bacon: An Appeal for Further Investigation and ...

Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 pages
...and Fourthly the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. ..." " For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign...
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