 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1863 - 470 Seiten
...foundation," says one of the members, "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." Fontenelle paints in his own manner — that is, with expressions of which each has its point and its... | |
 | 1867 - 332 Seiten
...end of the formation he defined to be 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 preparations and instruments were numerous. They had caves of great depth ; some of them being... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 382 Seiten
...of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible"; and in Solomon's House Bacon's ideas are carried out, and man is in the process of " being restored... | |
 | John H. Bell - 1870 - 394 Seiten
...BEOOKLYN. 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. -^^— Baton. Canada I was recalled to the States. A young c5| friend in Brooklyn urged me to come... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 Seiten
...address, " 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." (W. HI, 156.) The following are a few of the parts and proceedings of this College. " We have certain... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 Seiten
...foundation,' says his principal personage, ' 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.' And this ' possible ' is infinite. How did this grand and just conception originate ? Doubtless common... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 Seiten
...foundation,' says his principal personage, ' 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.' And this ' possible ' is infinite. How did this grand and just conception originate ? Doubtless common... | |
 | 1873 - 800 Seiten
...termed it), " the end of which is the knowledge of causes and of the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." While we have endeavored to show that abstract science is entitled to high appreciation and liberal... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1872 - 382 Seiten
...attainment of (in the language of Bacon), " 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." Report on the recent Progress of Chemistry. By LE ROT C. COOLET, Ph. D. [Read before the Institute,... | |
 | Henry C. Pedder - 1874 - 200 Seiten
...of Solomon, the end of which is the knowledge of causes and of the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." As we pass from the phenomena of life to those of mental and moral emotions, it is indeed true that... | |
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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. 
