“The” Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon: Reprinted from the Texts and Translations, with the Notes and Prefaces, of Ellis and Spedding |
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Page ix
... truth : " As my good old mistress [ Elizabeth ] was wont to call me her watch - candle , because it pleased her to say I did continually burn ( and yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing ) , so I must much more owe the like duty ...
... truth : " As my good old mistress [ Elizabeth ] was wont to call me her watch - candle , because it pleased her to say I did continually burn ( and yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing ) , so I must much more owe the like duty ...
Page x
... truth , unless he showed them some sheaves won by it ; and this he sought to do . Spedding admits that he failed , but urges that if only men did systematically and comprehensively what Bacon asked , they might ere this have attained ...
... truth , unless he showed them some sheaves won by it ; and this he sought to do . Spedding admits that he failed , but urges that if only men did systematically and comprehensively what Bacon asked , they might ere this have attained ...
Page xi
... truth they only tell us to do what we are all doing " . That is to say , Macaulay also holds that Bacon had achieved nothing in the matter of method , but claims that he first taught men what kind of truth was best worth seeking for ...
... truth they only tell us to do what we are all doing " . That is to say , Macaulay also holds that Bacon had achieved nothing in the matter of method , but claims that he first taught men what kind of truth was best worth seeking for ...
Page xii
... truths , and without recognizing many of those reached by other men , he yet saw and stated , with a vividness never surpassed , the intellectual vices which incapacitated most men for either discovering or appreciating truth . To Bacon ...
... truths , and without recognizing many of those reached by other men , he yet saw and stated , with a vividness never surpassed , the intellectual vices which incapacitated most men for either discovering or appreciating truth . To Bacon ...
Page xv
... truth , we shall miss half the significance of the matter if we do not realise that the very aspiration was possible only to a great intelligence and a great personality . Till the time of Comte , his was the only current classification ...
... truth , we shall miss half the significance of the matter if we do not realise that the very aspiration was possible only to a great intelligence and a great personality . Till the time of Comte , his was the only current classification ...
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