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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. "
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History - Page 432
by William Whewell - 1840
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments...
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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
...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 and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some hermits that choose to...
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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 motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor...
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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, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Here the literary interest...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordiuances and rites which we observe. " 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. " The Preparations and Instruments...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Plutarch - 1890 - 298 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 ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments...
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The Origin of Plant Structures by Self-adaptation to the Environment

George Henslow - 1895 - 286 pages
...and of reproduction are reserved. Printed by BALLANTVNE, HANSON & Co. At the Ballantync Press "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things." — BACON. " What determines molecular motion ? The fundamental problem of Nature." — CHOLL. "The...
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IDEAL EMPIRES AND REPUBLICS

CHARLES M. ANDREWS, PhD - 1901 - 376 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; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. * The preparations and instruments...
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