 | Stephen Gaukroger - 2001 - 270 pages
...and united together than they have been.' The ultimate aim is to separate and reject vain speculation and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve...solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain her master's comfort;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy.0 But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute...solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman,0 to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | Sylvia Bowerbank - 2004 - 324 pages
...heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man, so the end ought to be ... to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever...solid and fruitful, that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use,... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. The end ought to be to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever...solid and fruitful: that knowledge may not be, as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bondwoman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | Patrick Deneen - 2009 - 389 pages
...natural phenomena: "For that nothing parcel of the world is denied to man's inquiry and invention."78 "Heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man," Bacon insisted, pointing to a confluence of sacred and secular grounds for the pursuit of knowledge.79... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - 2005 - 368 pages
...of "primary philosophy" is for "the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." Its aim is to "separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and preserve and to augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a courtesan,... | |
 | Stephen A. McKnight - 2006 - 209 pages
...prima philosophia is for "the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate," and its purpose is to "separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 506 pages
...to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and...solid and fruitful ; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | 474 pages
...'to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and...solid and fruitful : that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 pages
...to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and...solid and fruitful: that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use... | |
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Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. But as both heaven and earth do conspire and... 
