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" The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. "
History of English Literature - Page 218
by Hippolyte Taine - 1871
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - Political science - 1886 - 296 pages
...assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The_endjDf jDur foundation is.the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest...
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The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

Edwin Percy Whipple - English literature - 1886 - 382 pages
...of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible " ; and in Solomon's House Bacon's ideas are carried out, and man is in the process of " being restored to...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...are assigned. And fourthly, the ordiuances and rites which we observe. " The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of...Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The Preparations and Instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the...
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The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called ..., Volume 2

Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...end of our foundation," says his principal personage, " is the knowledge of causes and secret motives of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting all things possible. And this 'possible' is infinite." . . . He recommends moralists to study the soul,...
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Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All ...

Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1889 - 592 pages
...words imputed to the president or father of the house, 'the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things po-; sible.' The fellows of the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants...
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Francis Bacon und seine geschichtliche Stellung: ein analytischer Versuch

Hans Heussler - Philosophers - 1889 - 216 pages
...III p. 156: „The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of tihngs; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible;" Sap. Vet.': Sphinx s. Scientia, VI p. 679: „verae enim philosophiae naturalis finis proprius et ultimus...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Plutarch - Utopias - 1890 - 298 pages
...are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths ; the...
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Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All ...

Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1892 - 580 pages
...words imputed to the president or father of the house, 'the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' The fellows cî the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants of light,...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - Utopias - 1896 - 294 pages
...are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the eifecting of all things possible, v " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and...
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A School History of English Literature, Volume 2

Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...the world".1 The end of their foundation was the "knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible". That indeed was the object of all Bacon's philosophy. The rest of the fragment — for the work is...
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