 I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed...  Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man - Page xiiby Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 245 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...and discoveries, the best state of that province." A few years afterwards he sent these letters to Dr. Playfair, Lady Margaret's professor, to be translated... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, pkilanthropia, is so fixed in my mind as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philant hropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, philanthropia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be removed. And I do easily see that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...with blind experiments, and auricular traditions " and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; " I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...curiosity, or vain glory, or " nature, or (if one take it favourably) Philantb.ro" pia, is so fixed in my mind, as it cannot be re" moved." After the lapse of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 526 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, phitanthropia is so fixed in my -mind, as it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils ; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Law - 1830 - 530 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations,...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and ' impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring ' in industrious observations,...that province. This, ' whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it ' favourably, philanthropia is so fixed in my mind, as it... | |
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