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" For first, the object of the natural history which I propose is not so much to delight with variety of matter or to help with present use of experiments, as to give light to the discovery of causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food.... "
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Page 500
by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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The Works, Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1863 - 532 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...or to help with present use of experiments, as to giv* light to the discovery of causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food. For though...
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Works, Volume 8

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...in selection also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of the natural history which I propose...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 pages
...also and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the object of a natural history which I propose is not so much to...principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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English Philosophers and Schools of Philosophy

James Seth - 1912 - 404 pages
...for light or insight, and is content to wait for the harvest of works to appear in its due season. ' For though it be true that I am principally in pursuit of works and the active department of the sciences, yet I wait for harvest-time, and do not attempt to mow the moss or to reap the green...
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Bacon Selections

Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...and setting forth, with a view to the operations which are to follow. For first, the obJ£ciL_of_the natural history which I propose is not so much to...present use of experiments, as to give light to the discovery_of_causes and supply a suckling philosophy with its first food. For though it be true that...
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