 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...also sometimes (which may seem strange) for curing of some diseases, and for prolongation of life in " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, live... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 558 pages
...Solomon's House — he, whose countenance was " as if he pitied men," — declares that the end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret...human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 754 pages
...men," — declares that the end of that foundation is "the knowledge of causes and secret motion.* of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodl/ wing... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1884 - 662 pages
...end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, an<l the enlirging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...its inmates, and their ordinances and rites ; and he at once states the object of the House to be " the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things,...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Here the literary interest ceases : for the rest of the fragment consists <){ little more than an enumeration... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1886 - 296 pages
...assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The_endjDf jDur foundation is.the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things...deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms ; and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 382 pages
...of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible " ; and in Solomon's House Bacon's ideas are carried out, and man is in the process of " being restored... | |
 | 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
...rieh storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate"; N. Atl., 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;"... | |
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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. 
