Thoughts, philosophical and medical, selected from the works of Francis Bacon, with an essay on his health and medical writings by J. Dowson |
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... brother Anthony , in April 1573. From a minute account of their expenses , kept by Dr. Whitgift , then Master of Trinity College , and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury , " with his own hand , " and published in the Brit- ish Magazine ...
... brother Anthony , in April 1573. From a minute account of their expenses , kept by Dr. Whitgift , then Master of Trinity College , and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury , " with his own hand , " and published in the Brit- ish Magazine ...
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... brothers , sisters , nurse - children , husbands , wives , & c . There be many reports in history , that upon the death of persons of such nearness , men have had an inward feeling of it . I myself remember , that being in Paris , and ...
... brothers , sisters , nurse - children , husbands , wives , & c . There be many reports in history , that upon the death of persons of such nearness , men have had an inward feeling of it . I myself remember , that being in Paris , and ...
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... brother's weak stomach to digest hath been much caused and confirmed by untimely going to bed , and then musing nescio quid when he should sleep , and then in consequent by late rising and long lying in bed : whereby his men are made ...
... brother's weak stomach to digest hath been much caused and confirmed by untimely going to bed , and then musing nescio quid when he should sleep , and then in consequent by late rising and long lying in bed : whereby his men are made ...
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... brother Francis's state you are to be well liked , and so I do as a Christian mother that loveth you both as the children of God : but as I wrote but in few words yesterday by my neighbour , the state of you both doth much disquiet me ...
... brother Francis's state you are to be well liked , and so I do as a Christian mother that loveth you both as the children of God : but as I wrote but in few words yesterday by my neighbour , the state of you both doth much disquiet me ...
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... brother . Memorandum . That the fourth of October , '94 , at my brother coming to me after a fit of the stone , and falling into talk of the money he ought me as principal debt , he acknowledged to be due to me £ 650 ; whereof £ 200 I ...
... brother . Memorandum . That the fourth of October , '94 , at my brother coming to me after a fit of the stone , and falling into talk of the money he ought me as principal debt , he acknowledged to be due to me £ 650 ; whereof £ 200 I ...
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44 psl. - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
43 psl. - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief...
6 psl. - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
20 psl. - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind...
67 psl. - There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health...
28 psl. - 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.
46 psl. - The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
52 psl. - The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections; whence proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would.
50 psl. - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
47 psl. - For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosqd or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.