| Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 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...that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind,3 beholding them in an example or two; as first, in that instance which is the root of a superstition,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 pages
...full of superstition and imposture, if it be not_de]iY£ied.jajidj:educed. For this purpose, let usT consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind, 3 beholding them in an example or two; as first, in that instance which is the root of a superstition,... | |
| Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 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;... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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;... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
| 1925 - 610 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...imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind. . . . Browne opens the first book with a similar statement : The first and farther cause of common... | |
| 1927 - 520 pages
...mit der menschlichen Sprache zu tun 2). Bereits in A ist der Grundgedanke angedeutet : '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 vulgär sort (NO... | |
| 1883 - 206 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; " it is rather like an enchanted glass full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." As seen in this "enchanted glass," the coming and going of the teeth is well calculated to furnish... | |
| Alfred Edward Housman - 1969 - 64 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'. But one clue I think I can commend to you which will lead in the right direction, though not all the... | |
| J. C. Davis - 1983 - 444 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'.99 It was against the shortcomings of the mind that Bacon warned men in his theory of the... | |
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