I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed... An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon - Page 57by James Spedding - 1878Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...confutations, and verbosities : the otber with blind experimente and auricular traditions, and impostures, bath ications for honesty and stale of that province. '!':.•• whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or, if one take... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries. ... If your Lordships will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils,—I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries. ... If your Lordships will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities: the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and impostures, hath committed...of that province. This. whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or if one take it favourably, plii/anthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it... | |
| 1857 - 476 pages
...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures, have committed so many spoils, — I hope I should bring...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or (if one take it more favorably) philanthropia, is so fixed linger with melancholy... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1857 - 612 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities: the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...inventions and discoveries; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
| Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other, with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...inventions and discoveries, the best state of that * The first outline of this work bears the title, " The Two Books of Francis Bacon of the Proficience... | |
| Kuno Fischer - 1857 - 492 pages
...one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other, with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...inventions and discoveries, the best state of that * The first outline of this work bears the title, " The Two Books of Francis Bacon of the Proficience... | |
| John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries. ... If your Lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with... | |
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