 | 1924 - 570 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Much in the way of deliverance and reduction has been accomplished in the last three centuries; much... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 516 pages
...signification, in his use of them, is limited to his ideas, and they can be signs of nothing else l. ' ' Let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider In this ' negotiation within himself ' Brutus thinks aloud ; thus affording us an exemplification of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...anticipations of the understanding." — Bacon's De Augmentis Scientiarum, V. iv. (Devey's translation). These "false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind," as Bacon calls them in The Advancement of Learning, are spoken of in his Latin works as idola, a transliteration... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...grace. Favourable consideration. 130 : 7. when they hit. Compare The Advancement of Learning, Book II: "For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances...general nature of the mind, beholding them in an example of two; as first in that instance which is the root of all superstition, namely, that to the nature... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words 181 , which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1910 - 196 pages
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1910 - 206 pages
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1910 - 216 pages
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
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For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered... 
