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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. "
Western Skies: A Narrative of American Travel in 1868 - Page 5
by John H. Bell - 1870 - 379 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are asligned. And, fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe, " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths ; the...
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Nasology: Or, Hints Towards a Classification of Noses

George Jabet - 1848 - 284 pages
...urges his disciples " to fix their minds on the contemplation of the immutable essences of things." " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of * Filum Labyrinthi. things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...of knowledge, "such," he says, "is a relation of the true state of Solomon's house, the end of which is not my felicity ; I know I have clean hands, and...friends, or servants. But Job himself, or whosoever possible.1' In these glorious inventions of one rich mind, may be traced much of what has been effected...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...whereto our fellows are assigned. And. fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe.. \ ( * v" The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to thr effecting of all things possible. _) " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...knowledge, " such," he says, " is a relation of the true state of Solomon's house, the end of which foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." In these glorious inventions of one rich mind, may be traced much of what has been effected in science...
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Utopia: Or the Happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance. To which is Added ...

Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned; and fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, 28 and the en88 Solomon's House, therefore, was simply a college, instituted for the study of natural...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And, fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. " con " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths : the...
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Routledge's Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham ...

Edward MacDermott - 1854 - 236 pages
...Ianthorn" of that Utopian commonwealth. It was described as founded for the obtaming of knowledge, and " the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." Solomon's House P9ssessed, like the Crystal Palace, its high towers, its cascades, its engines, its...
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Eclectic and Congregational Review

1855 - 946 pages
...indications which are presented to our view. Bacon's philosopher of the ' New Atlantis' says — ' The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motives of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.'...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...of mankind over the world." 1 "A restitution of man to the sovereignty of nature." 2 " The enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." 8 From the enlargement of reason, he did not separate the growth of virtue ; for he thought that "...
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