Book, Aphorism

  1      Pre          |         philosophy and the sciences great injury. For as they have
  2      Pre          |             forces — when they hope great things either from the number
  3      Pre          |          the time; whereas in every great work to be done by the hand
  4      Pre          |           however (especially in so great a restoration of learning
  5        1, XXIII   |                    XXIII~There is a great difference between the Idols
  6        1, XXX     |           their labors, yet will no great progress ever be made in
  7        1, XXXI    |            It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from
  8        1, XL      |            them out, however, is of great use; for the doctrine of
  9        1, XLVI    |      rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination
 10        1, L       |           brought to light, nothing great can be achieved in nature,
 11        1, LIII    |             Of this kind there is a great number and variety. But
 12        1, LVI     |         This, however, turns to the great injury of the sciences and
 13        1, LXI     |         touching the causes of such great infelicity and of such lasting
 14        1, LXII    |           sects like those which in great variety flourished once
 15        1, LXII    |     material of philosophy either a great deal out of a few things,
 16        1, LXIV    |           and principles of things, great danger may be apprehended
 17        1, LXXII   |         were talked of as something great. In our times, on the other
 18        1, LXXII   |          nativity or birth, nothing great can be predicted of those
 19        1, LXXVI   |             among philosophers such great disagreement, and such diversities
 20        1, LXXVII  |    Aristotle, at any rate, there is great agreement, since after its
 21        1, LXXIX   |          presents itself a cause of great weight in all ways, namely,
 22        1, LXXIX   |            ought to be esteemed the great mother of the sciences.
 23        1, LXXIX   |         requiring the services of a great number of persons. Again,
 24        1, LXXIX   |         natural philosophy was in a great degree either neglected
 25        1, LXXX    |         something else. And so this great mother of the sciences has
 26        1, LXXXI   |        LXXXI~Again there is another great and powerful cause why the
 27        1, LXXXI   |             powers. But of this the great majority have no feeling,
 28        1, LXXXIV  |          authority of men accounted great in philosophy, and then
 29        1, LXXXV   |         many ages there has been so great a dearth and barrenness
 30        1, LXXXVII |             Caesar or Alexander the Great, and the exploits of Amadis
 31        1, LXXXVII |          not to be wondered at if a great prejudice is raised against
 32        1, LXXXVIII|             not accomplishing, some great matter.~
 33        1, XC      |    innovator. But surely there is a great distinction between matters
 34        1, XCI     |           growth of them comes from great wits; the prizes and rewards
 35        1, XCI     |          hands of the people, or of great persons, who are but in
 36        1, XCII    |      themselves to men grave and of great judgment, we must take good
 37        1, XCII    |            causes and beginnings of great events.~
 38        1, XCIV    |          correcting these errors, a great change may be made for the
 39        1, XCIV    |             medicine. It will be of great use therefore to set forth
 40        1, XCVII   |            to that of Alexander the Great, and let no man tax me with
 41        1, XCVII   |          future ages: that I did no great things, but simply made
 42        1, XCVII   |          things that were accounted great. In the meanwhile, as I
 43        1, XCVIII  |          that Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by
 44        1, XCVIII  |       supported by the wealth of so great a king, has composed so
 45        1, XCIX    |             XCIX~Again, even in the great plenty of mechanical experiments,
 46        1, XCIX    |         experiments, there is yet a great scarcity of those which
 47        1, XCIX    |         Moreover, since there is so great a number and army of particulars,
 48        1, XCIX    |          state of man, yet it is no great matter that can be hoped
 49        1, XCIX    |         accident which, when taking great pains to search for it,
 50        1, XCIX    |         shaken and thrown down at a great distance, men would doubtless
 51        1, XCIX    |             namely, that there is a great mass of inventions still
 52        1, XCIX    |             as it ought to be, is a great, I may say a royal work,
 53        1, XCIX    |            strength when instead of great numbers doing all the same
 54        1, XCIX    |             the commencement of the great undertaking.~CXVII~And as
 55        1, XCIX    |           yet in itself it is of no great use. So also the letters
 56        1, XCIX    |             hand alone, he makes no great boast. And this remark,
 57        1, XCIX    |             of their speculations a great store and abundance of examples
 58        1, XCIX    |          now in use neither can any great progress be made in the
 59        1, XCIX    |           sang:~To man's frail race great Athens long ago~First gave
 60        1, XCIX    |           India; he will feel it be great enough to justify the saying
 61        1, XI      |       premature speculation, or any great amount of subtlety. For
 62        1, XII     |       winter, but about the time of great heat. Falling stars, as
 63        1, XII     |        animals, however, is found a great diversity of heat, both
 64        1, XII     |            or oils, which possess a great and intense acridity, act
 65        1, XIII    |         animals, which has a pretty great extent in its degrees. For
 66        1, XIII    |          and seasons, nor is it too great to be borne by the hand.
 67        1, XIII    |            boughs of trees is of no great use. After this I think
 68        1, XIII    |           substances, which have no great acrimony. But the most violent
 69        1, XIX     |           and nowise forgetting how great a work I am about (viz.,
 70        1, XIX     |            has before it depends in great measure upon what remains
 71        1, XX      |          violence, there is no very great heat perceptible; because
 72        1, XX      | mortifications, which do not excite great heat or pain on account
 73        1, XXIII   |          migratory instances are of great use with a view to operation,
 74        1, XXV     |     instances, however, are of very great service for the discovery
 75        1, XXVI    |            certain prerogative.~But great caution must here be employed
 76        1, XXVI    |         legitimate discovery of the great form, take it for granted
 77        1, XXVI    |          the source of motion.~Very great, in short, is the prerogative
 78        1, XXVII   |  conformable instances. So that the great organic difference between
 79        1, XXVII   |          For hitherto men have used great and indeed overcurious diligence
 80        1, XXVII   |           and sometimes invent with great vanity and folly.~But to
 81        1, XXVII   |          and similitudes is of very great use in very many cases.~
 82        1, XXXI    |           particular history of the great and masterly and most perfect
 83        1, XXXIII  |       universal propositions are of great use, as shall be shown in
 84        1, XXXV    |     strangely unequal. And yet this great man must go on at once to
 85        1, XXXV    |            of fire, and one of very great moment; viz., that the sun
 86        1, XXXV    |        either of the Indies. For so great is the quantity and mass
 87        1, XXXV    |        dense and compact mass, at a great distance from the earth,
 88        1, XXXV    |            crow which, in a time of great drought being half dead
 89        1, XXXV    |        either side, namely, snow in great quantities, and the flame
 90        1, XXXVI   |          Such instances afford very great light and are of high authority,
 91        1, XXXVI   |         bottom of a mine, sunk to a great depth below the ground;
 92        1, XXXVI   |         which he has collected with great sagacity and industry. One
 93        1, XXXVI   |           masses are upheaved, such great weights discharged, as we
 94        1, XXXIX   |             could be distinguished, great advantages might doubtless
 95        1, XL      |      reductions are applicable to a great many things, and in the
 96        1, XL      |             artificial — a thing of great use in many ways, as well
 97        1, XL      |        sense is hindered by the too great power of the object, the
 98        1, XLII    |    understood that they are also of great use even when proper instances
 99        1, XLV     |            the action operates at a great distance.~Again, if there
100        1, XLV     |          these must operate at very great distances. There are found
101        1, XLV     |           also insinuates itself at great distances, as also does
102        1, XLV     |            coast are perceived at a great distance by the cold they
103        1, XLV     |           which these powers act be great or small, it is certain
104        1, XLV     |            only when constrained by great violence.~But the compression
105        1, XLVI    |            time when I observed the great distance (sixty miles at
106        1, XLVI    |            found in distillations a great many facts worthy of notice.
107        1, XLVIII  |            unless it has gained too great strength by continuance;
108        1, XLVIII  | congregation, yet if it operates at great distances and on large masses,
109        1, XLVIII  |        heavenly bodies; as also the great heats and burnings which
110        1, XLVIII  |    resistance and connection; or of great wholes, as the motions of
111        1, L       |          outside is a thing of very great use, as when they pour oil
112        1, L       |           subterraneous pits are of great use in keeping off the heat
113        1, L       |            nature or in art, is the great instrument of operation,
114        1, L       |         generation; nor is anything great to be expected from a heat
115        1, L       |         wombs of animals there is a great inequality of heat, from
116        1, L       |             and antipathies, are in great part corruptions of philosophy.
117        1, L       |            these two quaternions or great tribes of things (each within
118        1, L       |           sifted, may possibly shed great light on other consents
119        1, L       |        false ascriptions there is a great number. As for fables, they
120        1, LII     |             or by leading it to the great form or fabric of the universe,