| Sir Thomas More (Saint) - Utopias - 1852 - 348 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned; and fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, 28 and the en88 Solomon's House, therefore, was simply a college, instituted for the study of natural... | |
| Edward MacDermott - Great Exhibition - 1854 - 236 pages
...Ianthorn" of that Utopian commonwealth. It was described as founded for the obtaming of knowledge, and " the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." Solomon's House P9ssessed, like the Crystal Palace, its high towers, its cascades, its engines, its... | |
| 1855 - 946 pages
...indications which are presented to our view. Bacon's philosopher of the ' New Atlantis' says — ' The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motives of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.'... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...of mankind over the world." 1 "A restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature." 2 " The enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." 8 From the enlargement of reason, he did not separate the growth of virtue ; for he thought that "... | |
| American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible " ; and in Solomon's House Bacon's ideas are carried out, and man is in the process of " being restored... | |
| Geology - 1858 - 518 pages
...members that " The end of the Foundation is Knowledge of Causes and Secret Motions of Things ; and enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." As one important means of effecting the great aims of Bacon's " six days college," certain of its members... | |
| Technology - 1858 - 638 pages
...members, that " The end of its Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and Secret Motions of Things ; and enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." As one important means of effecting the great aims of Bacon's " six days' college," certain of its... | |
| Geology - 1858 - 518 pages
...members that " The end of the Foundation is Knowledge of Causes and Secret Motions of Things ; and enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." As one important means of effecting the great aims of Bacon's " six days college," certain of its members... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1858 - 640 pages
...calls " Solomon's House," and informs us by the mouth of one of its members, that " The end of its Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and Secret Motions of Things ; and enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." As one important... | |
| Industrial arts - 1858 - 648 pages
...calls " Solomon's House," and informs us by the mouth of one of its members, that " The end of its Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and Secret Motions of Things ; and enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of nil things possible." As one important... | |
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