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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. "
Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 65
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...worthy of the name, Solomon's House, ' the end of whose 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.'THa Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren...
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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 and secret motions of things,"1 and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things . possible....
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Science, Volume 49

John Michels (Journalist) - 1919 - 688 pages
...should be sent to The Editor of Science, Gameon-onHudaon, NY THE UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC HEALTHi ' ' THE end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; ,the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." In these...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

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...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 36

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...
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Nature, Volume 29

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...
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Nature, Volume 29

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...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works

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...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

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...
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The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

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...
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