 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes • no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | William Thomson - 1879 - 158 pagina’s
..." costly, must be admitted into natural " history. Nor is natural history polluted " thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no " less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. " That model, therefore, I follow. For what" ever deserves to exist deserves also to be " known, for... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capital or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capital or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1912 - 584 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into Natural History. Nor is Natural History polluted thereby ; for the sun enters the sewer, no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution.' It was in this spirit that the philosophers of the middle of the seventeenth century originated and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1926 - 680 pagina’s
...must not neglect things which in the eyes of the scholar and the world seem "mean and filthy," "for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. . . . From mean and sordid instances there sometimes emanate excellent light and information." Fastidiousness... | |
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And for things that are mean or even filthy— things which (as Pliny says) must be introduced with an apology— such things, no less than the most splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby, for... 
