| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of / human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...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 effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these.... | |
| Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...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 effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these.... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859 - 750 pages
...informs us, by the mouth of one of its members, that " the end of its 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." Amongst the means and instruments to this great... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...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 effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these.... | |
| Margaret Fison - 1859 - 242 pages
...Association of Great Britain. " The end of its foundation," said this great philosopher, "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." In the first stage of its action, the principle... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...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 effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1863 - 470 pages
...try new experiments, &c. "The end of our foundation," says one of the members, "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." Fontenelle paints in his own manner — that... | |
| 1867 - 332 pages
...ordinances and rites which they observed. The end of the formation he defined 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. The preparations and instruments were numerous.... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 pages
...who has devoted all the powers of his mind with unwearying industry to seeking out "the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire ; " * the man who really advances the human race by dispelling ignorance, by dethroning... | |
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