 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For, like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pagina’s
...when speaking of the use of Mechamcal History, he says, " As a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto' attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the '.->.. passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pagina’s
...So true is his observation, in his History of Arts: — As a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hithertoattained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
 | 1850 - 824 pagina’s
...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully iu the liberty of nature, as in the trials... | |
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For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials and... 
