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" Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, being kept within their own province ; but because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that track. "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in ... - Page 130
by Dugald Stewart - 1877
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...has driven away and overthrown the diligent inquiry of physical causes." . . . . " And I say this, not because those final causes are not true and worthy to be inquired in metaphysical speculations; but because their excursions and irruptions into the limits of physical...
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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite studies Respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that tract. For otherwise, keep"ing their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived if they think...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that track. For, otherwise, keeping their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived if they think there...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 166 pages
...vasty jaws.' So ' vastness ' is used for ' desolation' in Bacon's Advancement of Learning, ii. 7. 7 . ' Because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that tract.' 43. come view. So Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2. 80 : ' We'll come dress you straight.' The...
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Studies in Early English Literature

Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 278 pages
...this that Bacon was an Atomist of the Atheistic school, but turning to the next sentence we read : " Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...excursions into the limits of physical causes hath had a vastness and solitude in that track." It was the limit of physical certainty that he wished to...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...their excursions into the limits of physical causes have bred a vastness and solitude in that track. For, otherwise, keeping their precincts and borders,...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...and the other as a part of logic, which were the favourue studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that tract. For otherwise, keeping their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived if they think...
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THE ELEMENTS OF DEDUCTIVE LOGIC

Thomas Fowler - 1887 - 612 pages
...impertinent.' And again : ' Not because these final causes are not true, and worthy to be enquired, being kept within their own province ; but because...hath bred a vastness and solitude in that track.' What Bacon appears to mean (and the distinction is important) is that, in extra-physical speculations,...
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The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Lewis Dabney - 1887 - 440 pages
...then gives instances of propositions about final causes improperly thrust into physical inquiries.) " Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy...being kept within their own province ; but because these excursions into the limits of physical causes have bred a vastness and solitude in that track....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite ' studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be enquired, being kept within their own province ; but because their excursions into the limits of physical...
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