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WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON,

BARON OF VERULAM,

VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN,

AND

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VII.

LONDON:

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1819.

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IN HOC VOLUMINE CONTINENTUR,

OPERA PHILOSOPHICA.

INSTAURATIO MAGNA.

INTRODUCTIO

Pag. xxi Præfatio: De statu scientiarum, quod non sit felix, aut majorem in modum auctus; quodque alia omnino, quam prioribus cognita fuerit, via aperienda sit intellectui humano; et alia comparanda auxilia, ut mens suo jure in rerum naturam uti possit Distributio operis

INSTAURATIONIS MAGNE PARS I.

1

33

De DIGNITATE et AUGMENTIS SCIENTIARUM, libri novem.

LIB. I.

Nullis constat capitibus, continet autem partitionem totius operis, et quarundam objectionum dilutionem

LIB. II.

53-109

Cap. I. Partitio universalis doctrinæ humanæ, in historiam, poësim, philosophiam: secundum tres facul