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... Novum Organum and the De Augmentis Scientiarum , but of the Parasceve , the De Principiis atque Originibus , the Descriptio Globi Intellectualis , the Thema Coeli , and the De Sapientia Veterum , as well as the original English ...
... Novum Organum and the De Augmentis Scientiarum , but of the Parasceve , the De Principiis atque Originibus , the Descriptio Globi Intellectualis , the Thema Coeli , and the De Sapientia Veterum , as well as the original English ...
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... Novum Organum and De Augmentis are now read not for scientific information , but as the ex- position of a great ... Novum Organum , the Parasceve , of which the original appeared in the same volume with the Organum in 1620 ; the De ...
... Novum Organum and De Augmentis are now read not for scientific information , but as the ex- position of a great ... Novum Organum , the Parasceve , of which the original appeared in the same volume with the Organum in 1620 ; the De ...
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... Novum Organum to interfere with his attention to the causes which came before him in Chancery , it did probably prevent him from attending as carefully as he should , and otherwise would have done , to the proceedings of his servants ...
... Novum Organum to interfere with his attention to the causes which came before him in Chancery , it did probably prevent him from attending as carefully as he should , and otherwise would have done , to the proceedings of his servants ...
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... Novum Organum and De Augmentis with having " moved the intellects which have moved the world " . It is true that Bacon has greatly impressed many great minds , beginning in his own century with Leibnitz , Comenius , and Vico ; but it is ...
... Novum Organum and De Augmentis with having " moved the intellects which have moved the world " . It is true that Bacon has greatly impressed many great minds , beginning in his own century with Leibnitz , Comenius , and Vico ; but it is ...
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... Novum Organum . There Bacon put forth all his power of gnomic concentration and august style ; and the result would to - day have been still nobler had he left us his own English . Of how it might have gone , the English reader may get ...
... Novum Organum . There Bacon put forth all his power of gnomic concentration and august style ; and the result would to - day have been still nobler had he left us his own English . Of how it might have gone , the English reader may get ...
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Page 45 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 60 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 88 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Page 288 - The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Page 74 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 54 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...
Page 135 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Page 79 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 554 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 72 - It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like; and, therefore, I will conclude with that which hath...