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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 105
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...end of our foundation is the know" ledge of causes, and secret motions of things; " and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, '' to the effecting...great " hills and mountains : so that if you reckon toge" ther the depth of the hill, and the depth of the " cave, they are, some of them, above three...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...dissections and trials, that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man. enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." («) In these glorious inventions of one rich mind, may be traced much of what has been effected in...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...of our foundation is the know" ledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; " and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, " to the effecting...great " hills and mountains : so that if you reckon toge" ther the depth of the hill, and the depth of the " cave, they are, some of them, above three...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...he will see the benefit which would result from the university containing these valuable relics. (a) We have large and deep caves of several depths : the...great hills and mountains ; so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are (some of them) above three miles...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...great hills and mountains : so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are, some of them, above three miles...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...knowledge of causes, and seer-' motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to th» effecting of all things possible. " The preparations...great hills and mountains : so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are, some of them, above three miles...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 6

1843 - 744 pages
...fnictifera ; its end is both " 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 latter of these was a continual subject of high and bright anticipation to Lord Bacon ; and, throughout...
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Utopia; Or, the Happy Republic: A Philosophical Romance

Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 pages
...philosophy. Lord Bacon evidently i perienced the influence of his own favourite pursuit, in erect: larging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting...several depths : the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you reckon...
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Utopia: or, The happy republic. To which is added, The new Atlantis, by lord ...

Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...philosophy. Lord Bacon evidently experienced the influence of his own favourite pursuit, in erecting larging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting...several depths : the deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...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...great hills and mountains ; so, that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are some of them above three miles deep...
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