Book, Aphorism

  1      Pre          |         to be done by the hand of man it is manifestly impossible,
  2      Pre          |     pursuing. But if there be any man who, not content to rest
  3        1, I       |                                 I~Man, being the servant and interpreter
  4        1, IV      |      effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together
  5        1, XVI     |          less general species, as Man, Dog, Dove, and of the immediate
  6        1, XLI     |       assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things.
  7        1, XLII    |           idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the
  8        1, XLII    |       like. So that the spirit of man (according as it is meted
  9        1, XLVIII  |          clearly to the nature of man rather than to the nature
 10        1, XLIX    |         as one would." For what a man had rather were true he
 11        1, LXI     |           the saying is, the lame man who keeps the right road
 12        1, LXI     |         it is obvious that when a man runs the wrong way, the
 13        1, LXV     |         flattery. For there is in man an ambition of the understanding,
 14        1, LXVI    |       natural bodies. Again, when man contemplates nature working
 15        1, LXVIII  |      entrance into the kingdom of man, founded on the sciences,
 16        1, LXXIII  |          benefit the condition of man, and which can with truth
 17        1, LXXV    |           and beyond the reach of man. Hence, too, those opinions
 18        1, LXXV    |   composition only is the work of man, and mixture of none but
 19        1, LXXVIII |      should have entered into any man's head and become the subject
 20        1, LXXX    |            a disengaged and whole man (unless it were some monk
 21        1, LXXX    |      afterwards. Meanwhile let no man look for much progress in
 22        1, LXXXII  |           experience. Now let any man soberly and diligently consider
 23        1, LXXXII  |         no more than this. When a man addresses himself to discover
 24        1, LXXXIV  |         riper judgment in the old man than in the young, because
 25        1, LXXXV   |        has forced the industry of man to rest satisfied with the
 26        1, LXXXV   |         in possession. For when a man looks at the variety and
 27        1, LXXXV   |           to admire the wealth of man than to feel his wants;
 28        1, LXXXV   |           an end.~And again, if a man turn from the workshop to
 29        1, LXXXV   |           to the fable of the old man who bequeathed to his sons
 30        1, LXXXVIII|          hereafter.~And even if a man apply himself fairly to
 31        1, LXXXVIII|     discoveries pass for new if a man does but refine or embellish
 32        1, XC      |           can hardly occur to any man. And if one or two have
 33        1, XC      |         authors, from whom if any man dissent he is straightway
 34        1, XCVII   |        may be entertained of that man. In which point I promise
 35        1, XCVII   |   Alexander the Great, and let no man tax me with vanity till
 36        1, XCVIII  |     Aristotle, himself so great a man, and supported by the wealth
 37        1, XCVIII  |         in the business of life a man's disposition and the secret
 38        1, XCIX    |          alone; no more than if a man should hope by force of
 39        1, XCIX    |            and brought within one man's knowledge and judgment,
 40        1, XCIX    |          to the life and state of man, yet it is no great matter
 41        1, XCIX    |       happen once or twice that a man shall stumble on a thing
 42        1, XCIX    |           are to be expected from man's reason and industry and
 43        1, XCIX    |           hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they
 44        1, XCIX    |          invention of ordnance, a man had described the thing
 45        1, XCIX    |      hardly have entered into any man's imagination or fancy,
 46        1, XCIX    |         marvels of nature, and by man not imitable, would have
 47        1, XCIX    |    expense.~CXII~Meantime, let no man be alarmed at the multitude
 48        1, XCIX    |           affairs of state, and a man of health not very strong (
 49        1, XCIX    |          pioneer, following in no man's track nor sharing these
 50        1, XCIX    |           way over which only one man can pass at a time (as is
 51        1, XCIX    |           not only to make a bold man try, but also to make a
 52        1, XCIX    |           a sober-minded and wise man believe.~CXV~Concerning
 53        1, XCIX    |        the power and greatness of man. And although on some special
 54        1, XCIX    |           false, which may make a man think that the foundations
 55        1, XCIX    |         rather quicksand)? Let no man therefore trouble himself
 56        1, XCIX    |           pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation
 57        1, XCIX    |     implied in it, certainly if a man undertakes by steadiness
 58        1, XCIX    |         is in fact, not such as a man's own reason would have
 59        1, XCIX    |        heroic. And certainly if a man rightly compare the two,
 60        1, XCIX    |       extend to the whole race of man, civil benefits only to
 61        1, XCIX    |         as the poet well sang:~To man's frail race great Athens
 62        1, XCIX    |      search it out."~Again, let a man only consider what a difference
 63        1, XCIX    |          justify the saying that "man is a god to man," not only
 64        1, XCIX    |      saying that "man is a god to man," not only in regard to
 65        1, XCIX    |       less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and
 66        1, XCIX    |      other two. Now the empire of man over things depends wholly
 67        1, XCIX    |           regard him as more than man who has been able by some
 68        1, XCIX    |         become familiar.~III~If a man be acquainted with the cause
 69        1, XCIX    |        manner imperfect. Now if a man's knowledge be confined
 70        1, XCIX    |        occurred to the thought of man. From the discovery of forms
 71        1, XCIX    |          therefore consider, if a man wanted to generate and superinduce
 72        1, XCIX    |      language. For instance, if a man wishes to superinduce upon
 73        1, XCIX    |      generating many; only that a man is more fettered and tied
 74        1, XCIX    |         in those things too where man has no means of operating,
 75        1, XCIX    |           organized bodies (as of man and animals) some pains
 76        1, XIII    |         the thing in reference to man from the thing in reference
 77        1, XIII    |           the lion, the kite, the man; for in common opinion fish
 78        1, XIII    |    regards the sense and touch of man, is a thing various and
 79        1, XV      |       this assuredly is more than man can do, to whom it is granted
 80        1, XVII    |      death; and that the power of man cannot possibly be emancipated
 81        1, XVIII   |        heat. And from all of them man is freed in his operations
 82        1, XX      |       notion, and has relation to man, not to the universe, and
 83        1, XX      |         not simply in relation to man) is, in few words, as follows:
 84        1, XXI     |       things in their relation to man; eighthly, of Preparations
 85        1, XXVII   |         has been remarked between man and a plant inverted. For
 86        1, XXX     | quadrupeds; also the ape, between man and beast —~Simia quam similis
 87        1, XXXI    |           of the Wit, or Hands of Man. These are the noblest and
 88        1, XXXI    |      business and conveniences of man, it is altogether agreeable
 89        1, XXXI    |        works which are already in man's power should (like so
 90        1, XXXI    |          contemplation of these a man pushes on his work with
 91        1, XXXI    |         have said elsewhere) if a man had been thinking of the
 92        1, XXXI    |  instances of the wit and hand of man, we must not altogether
 93        1, XXXV    |       unequal. And yet this great man must go on at once to corrupt
 94        1, XXXV    |           on by the impatience of man, are made to finish their
 95        1, XXXVI   |        one may but play the plain man for a moment (dismissing
 96        1, XL      |        made not to the sense of a man, but of some other animal
 97        1, XL      |         some cases is keener than man's; as of certain scents
 98        1, XL      |          nature with reference to man and not with reference to
 99        1, XLVIII  |          is much the same as if a man were to be denned as that
100        1, XLVIII  |        their resistance. For if a man be pinned to the ground,
101        1, XLIX    |       point out what is useful to man. For mere power and mere
102        1, L       |          putting asunder of them, man operates upon natural bodies
103        1, L       |      somewhat less than that of a man, so that the diver, when
104        1, L       |         the kind can be produced, man being more the master of
105        1, L       |         heat and cold. And herein man's power is clearly lame
106        1, L       |      others are.~As regards heat, man indeed has abundant store
107        1, L       |          increase in the power of man when by artificial heats
108        1, L       |     Feuillans (though the will in man has more power over the
109        1, LII     |          follow an improvement in man's estate and an enlargement
110        1, LII     |        his power over nature. For man by the fall fell at the
111        1, LII     |       subdued to the supplying of man with bread, that is, to