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" 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. "
The works of Francis Bacon - Page 97
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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The Tragedy of Sir Francis Bacon: An Appeal for Further Investigation and ...

Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 pages
...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. ..." " For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign...
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John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians: His Life and Educational Works

Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1904 - 298 pages
...of our Foundation is the knowledge of the Causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' He then proceeds to develope his conception of a great Institution devoted to Knowledge with a view...
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Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century

Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1904 - 388 pages
...The work reach ' the knowledge of causes, and secret mo- of the tions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' That is the motto of the great temple. There is much that is fan- : tastic in the sequel, but it illustrates...
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Studies in the History of Educational Opinion from the Renaissance

Simon Somerville Laurie - Education - 1905 - 284 pages
...End of our Foundation is the knowledge of the Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." He then proceeds to develope his conception of a great Institution devoted to Knowledge with a view...
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The Royal Society: Or, Science in the State and in the Schools

Sir William Huggins - London (England) - 1906 - 214 pages
...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." — F. BACON (New Atlantis'). From the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on November 30,...
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Medical Lectures and Aphorisms

Samuel Jones Gee - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1908 - 400 pages
...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.' Cowley's main object was the advancement of learning by research. His professors were to be devoted...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, I and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds | of human empire, to the effecting...under great hills and mountains: so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, "Steps. "Throne. "Canopy. "Ordered. they...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...described in The New Atlantis, founded by King ' Salamona,' and dedicated to the study of science. ' We have large and deep caves of several depths; the...under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon together the depths of the hill and the depth of the cave they are (some of them) above three miles...
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Entstehungsgeschichte von D. Defoes "Robinson Crusoe"...

Friedrich Wackwitz - 1909 - 88 pages
...naturwissenschaftlichen Akademie ist: 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; kurz, Herrschaft über die Natur wird erstrebt. ') The works of Francis Bacon, herausgeg. von J. Spedding,...
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Francis Bacon: A Sketch of His Life, Works, and Literary Friends, Chiefly ...

George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 1910 - 272 pages
...The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." His method and treatment of the whole subject exhibit his imaginative genius to an extent not to be...
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