Thoughts, philosophical and medical, selected from the works of Francis Bacon, with an essay on his health and medical writings by J. Dowson |
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... Look very well to your health . Sup not nor sit not up late . Surely I think your drinking to bedwards hindreth your and your brother's digestion very much . I never know any but sickly that used it ; besides ill for head and eyes ...
... Look very well to your health . Sup not nor sit not up late . Surely I think your drinking to bedwards hindreth your and your brother's digestion very much . I never know any but sickly that used it ; besides ill for head and eyes ...
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... look to the rest . ' ( W. v . 145 , tr . ) " " " " In May 1623 he wrote to Mr. Tobie Matthew , who was with the Prince and Buckingham in Spain , " My health , I thank God , is better than when you left me ; and , to my thinking better ...
... look to the rest . ' ( W. v . 145 , tr . ) " " " " In May 1623 he wrote to Mr. Tobie Matthew , who was with the Prince and Buckingham in Spain , " My health , I thank God , is better than when you left me ; and , to my thinking better ...
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... made ) much may be hoped . N. O. , W. IV , 92 , tr . Let no man look for much progress in the sciences- especially in the practical part of them - unless natural philosophy be carried on and applied to particular sciences and 58.
... made ) much may be hoped . N. O. , W. IV , 92 , tr . Let no man look for much progress in the sciences- especially in the practical part of them - unless natural philosophy be carried on and applied to particular sciences and 58.
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... look at all things alike , and lay down those as the principles of things , which agree as well with the smallest , rarest , and most neglected of essences , as with the greatest and most numerous and vigorous . De Principiis . W. v ...
... look at all things alike , and lay down those as the principles of things , which agree as well with the smallest , rarest , and most neglected of essences , as with the greatest and most numerous and vigorous . De Principiis . W. v ...
Términos y frases comunes
Advancement of Learning Æsop Albans aliment altered application Aristotle Aubrey Augm axioms brother Burghley cause Chancellor confess cure diet digestion diligently discourse diseases divers divine doctrine doth Earl Earl of Buckingham error Essay xxx experience favour Francis Bacon gift glory Gorhambury gout H. V. et M. W. hath Highgate honour hope human Idols inquiry James Spedding judge kind King James knowledge labour letter light long-lived Lord Bacon Lord Chancellor lordship Majesty Majesty's man's body medi medicine mind mother natural history natural philosophy Novum Organum objects observation pain parliament particular sciences patient physi physic physician preservation of health prolongation Rawley reason remedies rest says sickness sleep sometimes soul Spedding spirits stomach syck Sylva Sylvarum things thought tion true truth understanding W. M. XII warts whereas whereof wrote
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Página 44 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 43 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief...
Página 6 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 20 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for 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...
Página 67 - There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health...
Página 28 - 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.
Página 46 - The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Página 52 - The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections; whence proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would.
Página 50 - 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 and reduced.
Página 47 - For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature : what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's order in fact or in thought ; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosqd or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.