 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...end of our foundation," says his principal personage, " is the knowledge of causes and secret motives of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting all things possible. And this 'possible' is infinite." . . . He recommends moralists to study the soul,... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1889 - 592 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 po-; sible.' The fellows of the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Plutarch - 1890 - 298 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths ; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms ; and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1896 - 294 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1901 - 344 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...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... | |
 | 1901 - 352 pages
...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 are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms ; and some... | |
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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. 
