 But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man, so the end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is...  American Annals of Education - Page 1401829Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 pages
...to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful ; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman,...but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Thus have I described and opened, as by a kind of dissection, those peccant humours (the principal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a courtezan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bondwoman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | Joan Simon - Education - 1966 - 472 pages
...philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful : that knowledge...but as a spouse, for generation, fruit and comfort.' This is no place to take issue with those who traduce Bacon's ideas and intentions, in much the same... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful: that knowledge...but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Thus have I described and opened, as by a kind of dissection, those peccant humours (the principal... | |
 | Réjean Landry - Science and state - 1990 - 414 pages
...corresponds with the cause in practical science becomes the rule. Francis Bacon Novum Organum (1620) [K]nowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, nor as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit,... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...... to separate and reject vain speculations and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful; that knowledge may not be as a curtesan, for pleasure and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master's use;... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful: that knowledge...but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Rene Descartes Ren£ Descartes (1596-1650) is often called the founder of modern epistemology due to... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...congress, separated from what is "empty and void," the better to produce "solid and fruitful" speculations: "that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure...master's use, but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort."29 Here, the oppositional structures of modernity reveal what is produced by the tropes of... | |
 | Denise Albanese - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 268 pages
...congress, separated from what is "empty and void," the better to produce "solid and fruitful" speculations: "that knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure...master's use, but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort."31 The Baconian program works through the repertory of socially normative relations before... | |
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