 | Francis Bacon - 1864
...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 - 1868
...experiments of all mechanical arts : for " like as a man's disposition is never well known till it 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 - 1868
...experiments of all mechanical arts : for " like as a man's disposition is never well known till it 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... | |
 | James Spedding - 1868
...experiments of all mechanical arts : for " like as a man's disposition is never well known till it 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 - 1876 - 376 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.) - 1877 - 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... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 730 pagina’s
...experiments of all mechanical arts ; for " like as a man's disposition is never well known till it 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... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 202 pagina’s
...the arts, than has hitherto shone upon mankind. For like as a man's disposition is never well-known or proved till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed...trials and vexations of art than when left to herself." s In a subsequent place,9 he proposes a catalogue of inventions, or " Inventory of the Possessions... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884
...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 - 1885 - 376 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... | |
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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... 
