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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... "
The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ... - Page 226
by Francis Bacon - 1825 - 402 pages
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Of the Advancement of Learning

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,...
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Of the Advancement of Learning

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,...
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College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of ...

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;...
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Essays for College English

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;...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

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...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 22

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...
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Englische Studien: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 61

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...
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The Dental Practitioner, Volume 1

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...
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The Confines of Criticism

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...
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Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700

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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