Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre          |    business or for want of mental power to take in and embrace the
 2        1, III     |         Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the
 3        1, XLVI    |           not now acknowledge the power of the gods — "Aye," asked
 4        1, LXIII   |     frigid distinction of act and power; asserting that single bodies
 5        1, LXXV    |       should expect from art some power of generating or transforming
 6        1, LXXXVIII|          circumscription of human power, and to a deliberate and
 7        1, LXXXIX  |        will of God, the other his power. For he did not err who
 8        1, LXXXIX  |        not the Scriptures and the power of God," thus coupling and
 9        1, LXXXIX  |         meditation concerning his power. Meanwhile it is not surprising
10        1, LXXXIX  |          the thing which has most power over men's minds, has by
11        1, XCIV    |  themselves, which are not in our power, but in the human understanding,
12        1, XCV     |    transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this
13        1, XCIX    |          widely the limits of the power and greatness of man. And
14        1, XCIX    |         by steadiness of hand and power of eye to describe a straighter
15        1, XCIX    |           to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs
16        1, XCIX    |        desire to extend their own power in their native country,
17        1, XCIX    |           who labor to extend the power and dominion of their country
18        1, XCIX    |          establish and extend the power and dominion of the human
19        1, XCIX    |           divine bequest, and let power be given it; the exercise
20        1, XCIX    |         the work and aim of human power. Of a given nature to discover
21        1, XCIX    |  susceptible of such effect), his power is in like manner imperfect.
22        1, XCIX    |       Although the roads to human power and to human knowledge lie
23        1, XCIX    |        opens broad roads to human power, such as (in the present
24        1, XII     |           seem to have but little power, even on the level ground;
25        1, XII     |         that the liquids which in power and operation are hottest,
26        1, XII     |      bodies had no other means or power of producing warmth than
27        1, XII     | twenty-fourth instance exhibits a power in it that resembles heat
28        1, XII     |          manner therefore try its power in producing liquefaction.
29        1, XVII    |           and death; and that the power of man cannot possibly be
30        1, XXIV    |   exaltation or highest degree of power; as being disenthralled
31        1, XXV     |           in its lowest degree of power, and as it were in its cradle
32        1, XXVI    |       regard are of no despicable power, but have a certain prerogative.~
33        1, XXVI    |     internal smell and a delicate power of touch — of which this
34        1, XXXI    |          tenth place Instances of Power, or of the Fasces (to borrow
35        1, XXXI    |        which are already in man's power should (like so many provinces
36        1, XXXI    |         poor things, and that all power of a high order depends
37        1, XXXII   |      Deviating, Bordering, and of Power) ought not to be reserved
38        1, XXXV    |       fire is no more without the power of giving life to animals
39        1, XXXV    |        suppose that place has any power. Therefore philosophers
40        1, XXXV    |         that the earth's magnetic power of attracting heavy bodies
41        1, XXXV    |         that brutes too have some power of syllogizing; as in the
42        1, XXXV    |        visible, and affording the power of seeing; while color is
43        1, XXXVI   |           he insists, of magnetic power), were yet able by this
44        1, XL      |         hindered by the too great power of the object, the reduction
45        1, XLV     |           extend and increase its power. For we are sometimes enabled
46        1, XLV     |       like. So, too, the magnetic power by which iron and a magnet,
47        1, XLV     |          if there be any magnetic power which operates by consent
48        1, XLVIII  |           in its lowest degree of power, and betrays itself in very
49        1, XLVIII  |       declination. The third, its power of penetrating through gold,
50        1, XLVIII  |       everything. The fourth, its power of communicating its virtue
51        1, XLVIII  |           that is, its attractive power. Remarkable also is the
52        1, XLVIII  |           rekindling of the vital power in old age. Lastly, it seems
53        1, XLVIII  |         engendered, more magnetic power, more putrefying. This motion
54        1, XLVIII  |           subduing and concocting power of the heavenly bodies,
55        1, XLIX    |           useful to man. For mere power and mere knowledge exalt
56        1, L       |        and cold. And herein man's power is clearly lame on one side.
57        1, L       |           found others having the power of cold, which also condense,
58        1, L       | substances which from some occult power condense. These sympathies
59        1, L       |        see a real increase in the power of man when by artificial
60        1, L       |          the will in man has more power over the body than in other
61        1, LI      |    motions which are increased in power by passing from wheel to
62        1, LII     |           instances; instances of power; instances of companionship
63        1, LII     |           ground, as instances of power; or to what we should aspire
64        1, LII     |          deviating, bordering, of power, of the dose, intimating,
65        1, LII     |         and an enlargement of his power over nature. For man by