The Works of Francis Bacon: De augmentis scientiaurumM. Jones, 1815 |
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الصفحة x
... opinions of others , they no longer improve the sciences ; but servilely bestow their talents in adorning and defending some particular au- thor . It is a fatal mistake to suppose that the sciences have gradually arrived at a state of ...
... opinions of others , they no longer improve the sciences ; but servilely bestow their talents in adorning and defending some particular au- thor . It is a fatal mistake to suppose that the sciences have gradually arrived at a state of ...
الصفحة xi
... opinion . Whence time , like a river , has brought down to us what is light and tumid ; but sunk what was ponderous and solid . ‡ As to those who have set up for teachers of the sciences ; when they drop their character , and at ...
... opinion . Whence time , like a river , has brought down to us what is light and tumid ; but sunk what was ponderous and solid . ‡ As to those who have set up for teachers of the sciences ; when they drop their character , and at ...
الصفحة xii
... opinions , and go to the fountain - head ; but think it enough to add somewhat of their own : as prudentially considering , that at the time they shew their modesty in assenting , they may have a liberty of adding . But whilst this ...
... opinions , and go to the fountain - head ; but think it enough to add somewhat of their own : as prudentially considering , that at the time they shew their modesty in assenting , they may have a liberty of adding . But whilst this ...
الصفحة xiii
... opinions , but continuing friends to liberty , made use of assistance in their enquiries , the success they met with ... opinion ; yet it by no PRELIMINARIES . xiii.
... opinions , but continuing friends to liberty , made use of assistance in their enquiries , the success they met with ... opinion ; yet it by no PRELIMINARIES . xiii.
الصفحة xiv
Francis Bacon. founded in discourse and opinion ; yet it by no means reaches the subtilty of nature : and by catching at what it cannot hold , rather serves to establish errors , and fix them deeper , than open the way to truth . Upon ...
Francis Bacon. founded in discourse and opinion ; yet it by no means reaches the subtilty of nature : and by catching at what it cannot hold , rather serves to establish errors , and fix them deeper , than open the way to truth . Upon ...
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الصفحة 168 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
الصفحة xlvii - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
الصفحة xxxiv - 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...
الصفحة xlvii - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
الصفحة lix - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
الصفحة 36 - serve not only for ornament and delight, but also for active and civil use ; as being the edge tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.
الصفحة 39 - And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to merit. And as real history disgusts us with a familiar and constant similitude of things, Fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights, but inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. It raises the mind by accommodating the images of things to our desires,...
الصفحة lvi - Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation.
الصفحة lx - But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man; so the end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful...
الصفحة 6 - ... neglect of examination, the countenance of antiquity, and the use made of them in discourse, they are scarce ever retracted. The design of such a work, of which we have a precedent in Aristotle, is not to content curious and vain minds, but — 1.