 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 lapas
...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...observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventious and discoveries." . . . In short, Bacon asks his uncle for some means by which he can live... | |
 | 1910 - 1034 lapas
...ends as I have moderate civil ends; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if 1 could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...and discoveries — the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or (ifone take it favourably) philanthropie,... | |
 | 1910 - 1110 lapas
...ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if 1 could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...and discoveries — the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) pkilanthropia.... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1910 - 252 lapas
...to be my province ; and if I could'purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivo lous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other...experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hat! committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions,... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1912 - 540 lapas
...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...and discoveries ; the best state of that province. (6: 1 6.) Bacon opposed the reliance upon the statements of Greek scientists as the sole source of... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1912 - 386 lapas
...and he recurs to his protest against the pseudo-science of his period. " If I could purge knowledge of two sorts of rovers whereof the one, with frivolous...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries. . . . This, whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropy,... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 lapas
...finally accomplished it. In a letter to Burghley in 1592 he writes : ' If I could purge it [knowledge] of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experi1 Nov. Org., Bk. i. Aph. 105. * Ibid., Bk. i. Aph. 95. ments and auricular traditions and impostures,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 lapas
...to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivilous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other...and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropia,... | |
 | Patrick Joseph McCormick - 1915 - 448 lapas
...Burleigh, that he had taken all knowledge to be his province, and that if he could purge the field of "two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities (the schoolmen), and the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures (unmethodical... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 lapas
...goes on to say that if he could purge knowledge of foolish discussions and absurd guesses, he hopes he should " bring in industrious observations, grounded...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries." Here is the true modern spirit, the spirit which was to produce in course of time the patient accuracy... | |
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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;... 
