The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Ed.; with a Life of the Author, by Basil Montagu...Carey and Hart, 1844 |
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... matter of manifest truth is not to be mingled or weakened with matter of doubtful credit ; and yet again , rarities and re- ports that seem incredible are not to be suppressed or denied to the memory of men . " From the slightest ...
... matter of manifest truth is not to be mingled or weakened with matter of doubtful credit ; and yet again , rarities and re- ports that seem incredible are not to be suppressed or denied to the memory of men . " From the slightest ...
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... matter , and the most universal passions , ( which in either globe are exceeding potent , and transverberate the universal nature of things , ) he shall receive clear information concerning celestial matters from the things seen here ...
... matter , and the most universal passions , ( which in either globe are exceeding potent , and transverberate the universal nature of things , ) he shall receive clear information concerning celestial matters from the things seen here ...
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... matter of nourishment , as matter of generation for the body . For after the egg is laid , and severed from the body of the hen , it hath no more nourishment from the hen , but only a quickening heat when she sitteth . But beasts and ...
... matter of nourishment , as matter of generation for the body . For after the egg is laid , and severed from the body of the hen , it hath no more nourishment from the hen , but only a quickening heat when she sitteth . But beasts and ...
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... matter viscous or tenacious to hold in the spirit ; and that matter to be put forth and figured . Now a spirit dilated by so ardent a fire as that of the furnace , as soon as ever it cooleth never so little , congealeth presently . And ...
... matter viscous or tenacious to hold in the spirit ; and that matter to be put forth and figured . Now a spirit dilated by so ardent a fire as that of the furnace , as soon as ever it cooleth never so little , congealeth presently . And ...
Side 95
... matter of great gain to any that should begin it in Turkey . : Experiments in consort touching sweat . 706. In bathing in hot water , sweat , neverthe- less , cometh not in the parts under the water . The cause is ; first , for that ...
... matter of great gain to any that should begin it in Turkey . : Experiments in consort touching sweat . 706. In bathing in hot water , sweat , neverthe- less , cometh not in the parts under the water . The cause is ; first , for that ...
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Side 2 - 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. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrate, and accommodated for use and...
Side 412 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Side 402 - The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes: I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart: I have (though in a despised weed) procured the good of all men.
Side 402 - And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable; that, when he died, told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under ground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following...
Side 340 - I know at chess a pawn before the king is ever much played upon : a great many love me not, because they think I have been against my lord of Essex ; and you love me not, because you know I have been for him : yet will I never repent me that I have dealt in simplicity of heart towards you both, without respect of cautions to myself, and therefore vivus vidensque pereo.
Side 402 - ... full of savage and unreclaimed desires of profit, of lust, of revenge ; which as long as they give ear to precepts, to laws, to religion, sweetly touched with eloquence and persuasion of books...
Side 402 - Remember, O Lord ! how thy servant hath walked before thee ; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of thy church, I have delighted in the brightness of thy sanctuary. This vine, which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.
Side 109 - It is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception; for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate...
Side 485 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Side 126 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination.