Lord Bacon's "Philosophy" Examined: To which is Added, the Mental Process of Experience: an Essay Read at the Catholic Academy, January, 1877

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J. Hodges, 1877 - 164 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 118 - As he sat alone in a garden, he fell into a speculation on the power of gravity : that as this power is not found sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which» •we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought.
الصفحة 7 - Arnold ; or, the Sunday Class. A Storm on the Lake of Lucerne. " Will certainly please English readers who appreciate a simple but powerful delineation of the grandeur of Nature, and the tragic passions of the heart.
الصفحة 161 - Any month may be had separately. " He (Mr. Baring-Gould) tells the most graceful legends in a style equally graceful and fascinating, and with a distinctiveness and elaboration of minute details which shows plainly that he is a consummate master of the poetic art. He has thus far accomplished a most arduous task most successfully.
الصفحة 53 - And therefore the natural philosophies of Democritus and others, who allow no God or mind in the frame of things, but attribute the structure of the universe to infinite essays and trials of nature, or what they call fate or fortune, and assigned the causes of particular things to the necessity of matter without any intermixture of final causes, seem...
الصفحة 14 - We have never seen a book better calculated to loosen the hold which Dissent may have upon a candid mind than this of Mr. Garnier's. It is thorough, it is straightforward, it goes throughout upon Holy Scripture ; and yet, though honestly and faithfully treating Dissent and Schism as sins, it is calm, temperate, and loving.
الصفحة 117 - I, too, began to meditate concerning the motion of the earth : and though it appeared an absurd opinion, yet since I knew that, in previous times, others had been allowed the privilege of feigning what circles they chose, in order to explain the phenomena, I conceived that I also might take the liberty of trying whether, on the supposition of the earth's motion, it was possible to find better explanations than the ancient ones, of the revolutions of the celestial orbs.
الصفحة 1 - The inductive method has been practised ever since the beginning of the world by every human being. It is constantly practised by the most ignorant clown, by the most thoughtless schoolboy, by the very child at the breast.
الصفحة 117 - Having then assumed the motions of the earth, which are hereafter explained, by laborious and long observation I at length found, that if the motions of the other planets be compared with the revolution of the earth, not only their phenomena follow from the suppositions, but also that the several orbs, and the whole system, are so connected in order and magnitude, that no one part can be transposed without disturbing the rest, and introducing confusion into the whole universe.
الصفحة 3 - I do not think that I am in error when I say that they are so tasteful ! and finished in composition .... that they would give pleasure to a larger circle if they were more generally known. I do not wholly despair that this may yet he done.

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