| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature ofjthe jnind, beholding them in an example Or two; as first, in that instance which is the root of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...one of the errors, or 'peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. 11. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort: and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...of the mind ', beholding them in an example or two ; aa first, in that instance which is the root of all superstition, namely, That to the nature of the... | |
| William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Note the words we place in italics, where we refind the three chief words of the line already quoted... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 764 pages
...galling despotism of language, and yet how little it has been shaken. Thus Bacon says : Bacon. And lastly let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort ; and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1892 - 402 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence : nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." These inherent and universal tendencies to error Bacon calls "idols of the tribe." The times in the... | |
| David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." "We look, in short, at everything through the medium of our crude and erroneous notions of duty and... | |
| David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." "We look, in short, at everything through the medium of our crude and erroneous notions of duty and... | |
| 1924 - 570 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Much in the way of deliverance and reduction has been accomplished in the last three centuries; much... | |
| 1924 - 550 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Much in the way of deliverance and reduction has been accomplished in the last three centuries; much... | |
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