Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... Remains of Sir Francis Bacon , & c . , now the first time faithfully published , ' which appeared in 1679 , one division consists of Phy- siological Remains , ' or ' Arguments appertaining to Na- tural Philosophy , ' and another of ...
... Remains of Sir Francis Bacon , & c . , now the first time faithfully published , ' which appeared in 1679 , one division consists of Phy- siological Remains , ' or ' Arguments appertaining to Na- tural Philosophy , ' and another of ...
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His Writings, and His Philosophy George Lillie Craik. ¿ and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon ; collected by Robert Stephens , Esq . , late Historiographer Royal ; ' or , as the title runs in the second edition , published in 1736 ...
His Writings, and His Philosophy George Lillie Craik. ¿ and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon ; collected by Robert Stephens , Esq . , late Historiographer Royal ; ' or , as the title runs in the second edition , published in 1736 ...
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... building up , and is nearly the same thing with a restoration . Of what remains of this preliminary intimation of the design of the Instauratio the following are the most remarkable PROLEGOMENA TO THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA . 11.
... building up , and is nearly the same thing with a restoration . Of what remains of this preliminary intimation of the design of the Instauratio the following are the most remarkable PROLEGOMENA TO THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA . 11.
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... remains assertion , but even question remains question , and is not determined by disputation about it , but fixed and nourished ; and that all tradition and succession of discipline represents and exhibits the persons only of teacher ...
... remains assertion , but even question remains question , and is not determined by disputation about it , but fixed and nourished ; and that all tradition and succession of discipline represents and exhibits the persons only of teacher ...
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... complete host of divine works , it may seem that nothing more remains but that we proceed at once to philosophy itself . Yet in a matter so arduous and doubtful it appears requisite that some things should be 30 BACON'S WORKS .
... complete host of divine works , it may seem that nothing more remains but that we proceed at once to philosophy itself . Yet in a matter so arduous and doubtful it appears requisite that some things should be 30 BACON'S WORKS .
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Page 64 - 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 ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 44 - ... 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 52 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. 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...
Page 64 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things.
Page 46 - 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.
Page 65 - For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it that which is due; for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to the philosophers' works; and for wit and eloquence not much less than to orators
Page 53 - Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. 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...
Page 136 - The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man ; so that as we are to obey his law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe his word, though we find a reluotation in our reason.
Page 81 - The ancient opinion that man was Microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which should have respect to all varieties of things, as stars, planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world.
Page 52 - 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.