 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1892 - 580 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1892 - 622 pages
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 | 1971 - 568 pages
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 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 pages
...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
...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. B The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 pages
...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. ..." " For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1904 - 298 pages
...' The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of the Causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' He then proceeds to develope his conception of a great Institution devoted to Knowledge with a view... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 388 pages
...science is to The work reach ' the knowledge of causes, and secret mo- of the tions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' That is the motto of the great temple. There is much that is fan- : tastic in the sequel, but it illustrates... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 390 pages
...science is to nn The work reach ' the knowledge of causes, and secret mo- of the tions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' That is the motto of the great temple. There is much that is fantastic in the sequel, but it illustrates... | |
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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. 
