| Raymond Williams - 2005 - 292 pages
...perfection of all good fashions, humanitye and civile gentilnesse [More— first English translation, 1551]; the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible [Bacon, 1627]. It can be agreed that the two fictions exemplify the difference between a willed general... | |
| Tracy R. Twyman - 2005 - 248 pages
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| Tim Carter, John Butt - 2005 - 636 pages
...publicly funded research institute dedicated to the cooperative study of God's works, the aim of which was 'knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things;...bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible'.21 Thus as well as dealing with causes (which are addressed more fully in Sylva sylvarum),... | |
| Wilson C. McWilliams - 2006 - 366 pages
...College of Six Days," Bacon wrote that "the End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 17. Francis Bacon, The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon. Ed. JM Robertson (London: George Routledge... | |
| Patrick Deneen - 2009 - 389 pages
...College of Six Days," Bacon wrote that, "the End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."97 The discovery of "secret motions" and subsequent inventions that improve upon nature's... | |
| Frank Niele - 2005 - 224 pages
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