 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 sider
...verified, noted, weighed, or measured, in natural history. Indefinite and vague observation produces fallacious and uncertain information. If this appear...distinguished a man, and supported by the wealth of 30 great a king, has completed an accurate history of animals, to which others with greater diligence... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 612 sider
...verified, noted,.weighed, or measured, in natural history. Indefinite and vague observation produces fallacious and uncertain information. If this appear...considerable additions, and others again have composed copions histories and notices of plants, metals, and fossils,) it will arise from a want of sufficiently... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 388 sider
...any one, and not far removed from unjust complaint; — seeing that Aristotle, a man of such powers, and supported by the wealth of so great a King, has completed so accurate a History of Animals ; and some others with greater diligence, (though with less noise,)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 386 sider
...any one, and not far removed from unjust complaint ;— seeing that Aristotle, a man of such powers, and supported by the wealth of so great a King, has completed so accurate a History of Animals ; and some others with greater diligence, (though with less noise,)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 sider
...strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so accurate a history of animals ; and that others with greater diligence, though less pretence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 sider
...strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so accurate a history of animals; and that others with greater diligence, though less pretence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 sider
...strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so accurate a history of animals ; and that others with greater diligence, though less pretence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 sider
...strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so accurate a history of animals ; and that others with greater diligence, though less pretence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 268 sider
...verified, noted, weighed, ./ or measured, in Natural History. Indefinite and vague observation produces fallacious and uncertain information. If this appear...completed an accurate History of Animals, to which pthers with greater diligence but less noise have made considerable additions, and others again have... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 sider
...strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so accurate a history of animals; and that others with greater diligence, though less pretense,... | |
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... nothing counted, weighed, or measured, is to be found in natural history : and what in observation is loose and vague, is in information deceptive and treacherous. And if any one thinks that this is a strange thing to say, and something like an unjust... 
