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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 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 not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let 50 us consider the false appearances that are imposed. upon ns by the general nature of the mind, beholding... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 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... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 792 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 - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. u. 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort ; and... | |
| Francis Bacon - Science - 1878 - 686 pages
...second of the Two Books on the Advancement of Learning, published in 1605, they are spoken of as ' false appearances that are imposed upon us ' by ' the general nature of the mind,' by 'words,' etc. For the latter passage, see Ellis and Spedding's Edition of Bacon's Works, vol. iii.... | |
| Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1878 - 702 pages
...second of the Two Books on the Advancement of Learning, published in 1605, they are spoken of as ' false appearances that are imposed upon us' by ' the general nature of the mind," by ' words,' etc. For the latter passage, see Ellis and Spedding's Edition of Bacon's Works, vol. iii.... | |
| William Aldis Wright - Bible - 1884 - 698 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 not delivered and reduced. Bacon, Adv. of Learning, 11. 14, § 9 (ed. Wright, p. 161). Crlede, sb. (Deut. xiv. 13). AS glida,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...; so differing an harmony there is between the spirit of man, and the spirit of nature. 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 - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. ti, And lastly, let us consider the false appearances^ that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed I and applied according to the conceit and capacities of I the vulgar sort... | |
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