The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and HumanW. Pickering, 1825 - 402 من الصفحات |
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... sense and matter . For this " purpose I could not represent to myself any 66 man into whose bands I do more earnestly de- " sire that work should fall than yourself ; for by " that I have heard and read , I know no man , a 66 greater ...
... sense and matter . For this " purpose I could not represent to myself any 66 man into whose bands I do more earnestly de- " sire that work should fall than yourself ; for by " that I have heard and read , I know no man , a 66 greater ...
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... senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness , then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself , and ...
... senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness , then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself , and ...
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... sense discover natural things , but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine . " And hence it is true , that it hath ... senses . And as for the con- ceit that too much knowledge should incline a man to atheism , and that the ignorance of ...
... sense discover natural things , but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine . " And hence it is true , that it hath ... senses . And as for the con- ceit that too much knowledge should incline a man to atheism , and that the ignorance of ...
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... 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 farther , and seeth the dependence of causes , and the works of Providence ...
... 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 farther , and seeth the dependence of causes , and the works of Providence ...
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... sense of his own opinion . And as for Vir- gil's verses , though it pleased him to brave the world in taking to the Romans the art of empire , and leaving to others the arts of subjects ; yet so much is manifest , that the Romans never ...
... sense of his own opinion . And as for Vir- gil's verses , though it pleased him to brave the world in taking to the Romans the art of empire , and leaving to others the arts of subjects ; yet so much is manifest , that the Romans never ...
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الصفحة 313 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
الصفحة 158 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
الصفحة 13 - Jupiter's chair. ^<fo 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...
الصفحة 57 - So it is in contemplation; 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.
الصفحة 309 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
الصفحة 364 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
الصفحة 267 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
الصفحة 226 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
الصفحة 52 - ... for, as water will not ascend higher than the level of the first spring-head from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from Aristotle, and exempted from liberty of examination, will not rise again higher than the knowledge of Aristotle.
الصفحة 142 - Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.