 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...country from long endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like) they decreed no higher honours than heroic. And certainly if a man rightly compare...whole race of man, civil benefits only to particular pla ces ; the latter last not beyond a few ages, the former through all time. Moreover the reformation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...country from long endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like) they decreed no higher honours than heroic. And certainly if a man rightly compare...whole race of man, civil benefits only to particular pla ces; the latter last not beyond a few ages, the former through all time. Moreover the reformation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...country from long endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like) they decreed no higher honours than heroic. And certainly if a man rightly compare...whole race of man, civil benefits only to particular pla ces ; the latter last not beyond a few ages, the former through all time. Moreover the reformation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 pages
...state (such as founders of cities and empires, legislators, saviors of their country from long endured evils, quellers of tyrannies, and the like) they decreed...not beyond a few ages, the former through all time." Spedding's trans. 6 Cyrus: 559-529 B. c., founder of the Persian empire. 7 Ottoman: Osman or Othman,... | |
 | Langdon Winner - 1978 - 400 pages
...the like)." To political actors, former ages "decreed no higher honour than heroic," and rightly so. "For the benefits of discoveries may extend to the...civil benefits only to particular places; the latter not beyond a few ages, the former through all time."*^ Bacon notes that science and the practical arts... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...just. For the benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole race of man \ad universum genus humanum], civil benefits only to particular places; the latter...not beyond a few ages, the former through all time. . . . Now the empire of man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot command... | |
 | Christopher B. Kaiser - 1997 - 480 pages
...of New Atlantis ', p. 56). And 'authors of inventions' were revered as gods by the ancients because 'the benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole race of man', and 'discoveries.. .confer benefits without causing harm or sorrow to any'; Novum Organum 1.129 (Works... | |
 | Hans Achterhuis - 2001 - 192 pages
...remark ot Francis Bacon comparing the contributions of politicians and scientists to human history: "The benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole...civil benefits only to particular places; the latter not beyond a tew ages, the former tbrough all time."" Freedom and power are no longer associated with... | |
 | Richard Kennington - 2004 - 308 pages
...universe" through a universal method is more benevolent than the teaching of political modes and orders. "The benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole...not beyond a few ages, the former through all time"; "civil reformations" usually begin in violence, but discoveries confer benefits without causing sorrow... | |
 | Clifford Conner - 2005 - 572 pages
...237-238. WHO WERE THE WINNERS IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION? THE SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES THE BENEFITS OF discoveries may extend to the whole race of man .... discoveries carry blessings with them, and confer benefits without causing harm or sorrow to anyone.... | |
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... than heroic. And certainly if a man rightly compare the two, he will find that this judgment of antiquity was just. For the benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole race of man, civil benefits only to particular pla ces ; the latter last not... 