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" 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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page 364
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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Utopia: or, The happy republic. To which is added, The new Atlantis, by lord ...

Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...philosophy. Lord Bacon evidently experienced the influence of his own favourite pursuit, in erecting larging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...several depths : the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...gives him the following account ofSolomon's House : — The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging...great hills and mountains ; so, that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are some of them above three miles deep...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...following account of Solomon's House : — secret motions of tiiings, and the enlarging of the bound* of human empire to the effecting of all things possible....great hills and mountains ; so, that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are some of them ahove three miles deep...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...of things, and the enlarging of the hounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possihle. The preparations and instruments are these : we have...deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk sil hundred fathom, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so, that...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 3

George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 276 pages
...caused his visitor to sit down beside him, gives him the following account of Solomon's House: — secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...great hills and mountains ; so, that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are some of them above three miles deep...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...And, fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...depths ; the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom: «ii some of them are digged and made under grat hills and mountains : so that if yon rectos together...
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A History of the Royal Society: With Memoirs of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...forth. Describing this imaginary establishment, he says, "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...things possible. The preparations and instruments are — large and deep caves for coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservation of bodies,...
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - London (England) - 1848 - 570 pages
...forth. Describing this imaginary establishment, he says, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging...things possible. The preparations and instruments are—large and deep caves for coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservation of bodies,—...
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Nasology: Or, Hints Towards a Classification of Noses

George Jabet - Character - 1848 - 284 pages
...things." " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of * Filum Labyrinthi. things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." * Neither does he differ at all from the philosopher of the Academy in his appreciation of pure truth....
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...confirming of it in strength of sinews, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of the body. CAVES. The preparations and instruments are these : we have...deep caves of several depths ; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you...
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