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... methods of previous authors , and his quotations , though somewhat overlaid , are always illuminating . He had no pretension to the minute scholarship of a Casaubon or a Scaliger ; but his grasp of the Latin tongue was firm , and his ...
... methods of previous authors , and his quotations , though somewhat overlaid , are always illuminating . He had no pretension to the minute scholarship of a Casaubon or a Scaliger ; but his grasp of the Latin tongue was firm , and his ...
Page xxix
... method ; and modern anatomists and physiologists are but the heirs of Galen , who have turned to good account the patrimony bequeathed by him to the civilized world . . . . ... I proposed at the outset of this essay to say something ...
... method ; and modern anatomists and physiologists are but the heirs of Galen , who have turned to good account the patrimony bequeathed by him to the civilized world . . . . ... I proposed at the outset of this essay to say something ...
Page xxx
... method , Harvey's method is the method of Galen , the method of Realdus Columbus , the method of Galileo , the method of every genuine worker in science either in the past or the present . On the other hand , judged strictly by the ...
... method , Harvey's method is the method of Galen , the method of Realdus Columbus , the method of Galileo , the method of every genuine worker in science either in the past or the present . On the other hand , judged strictly by the ...
Page xxxii
... method , it is imposscertain the relative importance of any facts , or ev etermine if the facts have any value at all , till the master - fact which constitutes the discovery has crowned the zealous efforts of the aspiring philosopher ...
... method , it is imposscertain the relative importance of any facts , or ev etermine if the facts have any value at all , till the master - fact which constitutes the discovery has crowned the zealous efforts of the aspiring philosopher ...
Page xxxiii
... method of induction . The impatience of genius spurns the restraints of mechanical rules , and never will submit to ... methods of trying his own spec- ulations , and he is thus often led to new discoveries far more important and general ...
... method of induction . The impatience of genius spurns the restraints of mechanical rules , and never will submit to ... methods of trying his own spec- ulations , and he is thus often led to new discoveries far more important and general ...
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Page 125 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 42 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 41 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 141 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 85 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 42 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 31 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 139 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity : and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Page 9 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 72 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.