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... facts not carefully ascertained , and often on mere baseless con- jecture , they proceeded to reason , often very closely and ingeni- ously , forgetting that no architectural skill in a superstructure will give it greater firmness than ...
... facts not carefully ascertained , and often on mere baseless con- jecture , they proceeded to reason , often very closely and ingeni- ously , forgetting that no architectural skill in a superstructure will give it greater firmness than ...
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... facts unprofitable , to one whose mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason of the prevailing ...
... facts unprofitable , to one whose mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason of the prevailing ...
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... facts , to that of trusting to a mere accumulation of ill - arranged knowledge . It is as if men had formerly spent vain labour in threshing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors ...
... facts , to that of trusting to a mere accumulation of ill - arranged knowledge . It is as if men had formerly spent vain labour in threshing over and over again the same straw , and winnowing the same chaff , and then their successors ...
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... fact alluded to in a Latin proverb applicable to those who create future dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which ...
... fact alluded to in a Latin proverb applicable to those who create future dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which ...
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... fact an ovipositor ( egg- layer ) , pierces with this the body of a caterpillar in several places , and deposits her eggs , which are there hatched , and feed , as grubs ( larvæ ) on the inward parts of their victim.- A most wonderful ...
... fact an ovipositor ( egg- layer ) , pierces with this the body of a caterpillar in several places , and deposits her eggs , which are there hatched , and feed , as grubs ( larvæ ) on the inward parts of their victim.- A most wonderful ...
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Bacon's Essays, with Annotations by R. Whately Richard Whately (abp of Dublin) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 248 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Seite 148 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Seite 377 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Seite 135 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 507 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Seite 47 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 84 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Seite 217 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Seite 431 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Seite 393 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.