 For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 142by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words 4, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort :... | |
 | Howard P. Kainz - Philosophy - 2010 - 206 pages
...die wir durch es vom Absoreflect according to their true incidence ... is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, bk. 2, in Francis Bacon, Works (Boston: Houghron-Mifflm,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words 4, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort :... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 622 pages
...galling despotism of language, and yet how little it has been shaken. Thus Bacon says: — ' And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort; and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words,1 which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 214 pages
...beams of things shall reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Can what Bacon says of the fallacies of the mind be also said of its proper cognitions ? Does the mind,... | |
 | M. P. W. Bolton - Philosophy, English - 1866 - 284 pages
...beams of things shall reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.' Can what Bacon says of the fallacies of the mind be also said of its proper cognitions? Does the mind,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...shall reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like VOL. I. o 1 86 uii enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Can what Bacon says of the fallacies of the mind be also said of its proper cognitions ? Does the mind,... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - Knowledge, Theory of - 1866 - 208 pages
...beams of things shall reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Can what Bacon says of the fallacies of the mind be also said of its proper cognitions ? Does the mind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false ap- . / pearances that are imposed upon us by th^^gg^ejaj,jj^ftire ' .f 't, of the ,minrl beholding... | |
| |
