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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... spirits , and therefore probably his health , at once revived ; as we may infer from a letter " To my Lord of Essex " which begins , " I pray God her Majesty's weighing be not like the weight of a balance ; gravia deorsum , levia sursum ...
... spirits , and therefore probably his health , at once revived ; as we may infer from a letter " To my Lord of Essex " which begins , " I pray God her Majesty's weighing be not like the weight of a balance ; gravia deorsum , levia sursum ...
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... spirits . When I had written this letter I received your lordship's letter of the third of this present , wherein your lordship show- eth your solicitous care of my health , which did wonderfully comfort me . And it is true that at this ...
... spirits . When I had written this letter I received your lordship's letter of the third of this present , wherein your lordship show- eth your solicitous care of my health , which did wonderfully comfort me . And it is true that at this ...
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... spirit- stirring , almost enthusiastic , announcement of its paramount importance , as the alpha and omega of science , as the grand and only chain for the linking together of physical truths , and the eventual key to every discovery ...
... spirit- stirring , almost enthusiastic , announcement of its paramount importance , as the alpha and omega of science , as the grand and only chain for the linking together of physical truths , and the eventual key to every discovery ...
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... spirits . " In Juue he was permitted to retire to his own house at Gorhambury but this is " to me , I protest , " he said in a petition intended for the House of Lords , worse than the Tower . There I could have had company , physi ...
... spirits . " In Juue he was permitted to retire to his own house at Gorhambury but this is " to me , I protest , " he said in a petition intended for the House of Lords , worse than the Tower . There I could have had company , physi ...
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... spirits " as the agents of all changes , both in animate and inanimate bodies . He believed that “ in every tangible body there is a spirit covered and en- veloped in the grosser body ; and that from this spirit con- sumption and ...
... spirits " as the agents of all changes , both in animate and inanimate bodies . He believed that “ in every tangible body there is a spirit covered and en- veloped in the grosser body ; and that from this spirit con- sumption and ...
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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.