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... Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM's Dissertation on the Objects , Advantages and Pleasures of Science , and his Account of Lord BACON's Novum Organon , Part I .; and the First Part of Mr. HERSCHEL'S Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy ...
... Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM's Dissertation on the Objects , Advantages and Pleasures of Science , and his Account of Lord BACON's Novum Organon , Part I .; and the First Part of Mr. HERSCHEL'S Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy ...
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... Lord Chancellor Brougham . 138 An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum ; or New Method of Studying the Sciences . From the British Library of Useful Knowledge ........ 207 A Discourse on the Nature and Advantages of the ...
... Lord Chancellor Brougham . 138 An Account of Lord Bacon's Novum Organon Scientiarum ; or New Method of Studying the Sciences . From the British Library of Useful Knowledge ........ 207 A Discourse on the Nature and Advantages of the ...
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... Lord Bacon , two centuries ago , in some most profound discourses , exposed the absurdity of the existing system of study , and of its unsatisfactory aims and results . He vindicated the necessity of inquiring into mental as well as ...
... Lord Bacon , two centuries ago , in some most profound discourses , exposed the absurdity of the existing system of study , and of its unsatisfactory aims and results . He vindicated the necessity of inquiring into mental as well as ...
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... Lord Bacon's admonitions can scarcely be said to have gained any general credence until the close of the seventeenth century ; and their tri- umphant adoption was reserved as the peculiar glory of our day . It is to this cause , that we ...
... Lord Bacon's admonitions can scarcely be said to have gained any general credence until the close of the seventeenth century ; and their tri- umphant adoption was reserved as the peculiar glory of our day . It is to this cause , that we ...
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... Lord Bacon's maxims , and of the paramount importance of facts over mere speculative philosophy . It was for- merly an occult science , full of mysteries , and unedifying processes , abounding in theories , and scarcely reducible to any ...
... Lord Bacon's maxims , and of the paramount importance of facts over mere speculative philosophy . It was for- merly an occult science , full of mysteries , and unedifying processes , abounding in theories , and scarcely reducible to any ...
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