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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 xvi
by Francis Bacon - 1834
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; and the d rebellion, this is the time. This is the time to pull up this heretical weed of " The preparations and instruments arc these : we have large and deep caves of several depths ; the...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...observe. " 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 preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the...
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Education, Volume 8

Education - 1888 - 738 pages
...mankind over the world " ; " a restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature " ; " the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." The ethics of the industrial education is expressed in two words used by Macaulay as descriptive of...
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things,"1 and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things . possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths: the deepest,...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...' the end of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.'THa Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren...
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Science, Volume 49

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1919 - 688 pages
...HEALTHi ' ' THE end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; ,the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." In these words Francis Bacon in "The New Atalantis ' ' summed up the aims of what he called "Salomon's House"...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...life in " 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. some hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, live...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 36

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1884 - 558 pages
...that the end of that 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." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing...
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Nature, Volume 29

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 754 pages
...that the end of that foundation is "the knowledge of causes and secret motion.* of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodl/ wing...
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Nature, Volume 29

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 662 pages
...end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, an<l the enlirging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing...
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