 | John Cartwright, Brian Baker - 2005 - 494 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...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 reckon... | |
 | 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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 | 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 - 388 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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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. 
