Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre          |  imaginations. And therefore that art of logic, coming (as I said)
 2      Pre          |       resolved to call in aid the art of athletics, and required
 3      Pre          |     according to the rules of the art, would he not cry out that
 4      Pre          |  considered as a kind of athletic art) to strengthen the sinews
 5      Pre          |          not to be avoided by any art of words) in respect of
 6        1, LXXIII  |     mechanics use, and not by any art or theory. For the theory
 7        1, LXXV    |         on the authority of their art, that it cannot be known
 8        1, LXXV    |       lest men should expect from art some power of generating
 9        1, LXXXII  |       principles of each separate art.~There remains simple experience
10        1, LXXXV   |       understood the words of his art or of his authors (whereupon
11        1, LXXXVI  |     profess to embrace the entire art. But as the matter now is,
12        1, LXXXVIII|          lays the weakness of his art to the charge of nature:
13        1, LXXXVIII|           of nature: whatever his art cannot attain he sets down
14        1, LXXXVIII|         the authority of the same art to be in nature impossible.
15        1, LXXXVIII|          impossible. And truly no art can be condemned if it be
16        1, LXXXVIII|     subdued, can be expected from art or human labor; as with
17        1, LXXXVIII|          the sake of having their art thought perfect, and for
18        1, LXXXIX  |           it into the shape of an art, ended in incorporating
19        1, XCVIII  |    readily under the vexations of art than when they go their
20        1, XCIX    |         of the experiments of one art to others may lead, by means
21        1, XCIX    |           any rate nothing in the art of printing which is not
22        1, XCIX    |           particular phenomena of art and nature are but a handful
23        1, XCIX    |       therefore to proceed to the art itself and rule of interpreting
24        1, XCIX    |       stake all on the victory of art over nature in the race.
25        1, XCIX    |         by any felicity of wit or art. And therefore, if in my
26        1, XCIX    |          of these they framed the art. After that, if any new
27        1, XCIX    |       time for me to propound the art itself of interpreting nature,
28        1, XCIX    |           mind, without any other art, to fall into my form of
29        1, XCIX    |          must needs hold that the art of discovery may advance
30        1, XXIX    |          of nature to miracles of art. For if nature be once detected
31        1, XXIX    | difficulty in leading her back by art to the point whither she
32        1, XXXI    |          consummate works in each art, exhibiting the ultimate
33        1, XXXI    |  excellent and wonderful works of art, and that in a much greater
34        1, XXXI    |     constructing such miracles of art is in most cases plain,
35        1, XXXI    |    contemplation of such works of art, which appear to be the
36        1, XXXI    | masterpieces and mysteries of any art, and which excite wonder.
37        1, XXXI    |          Now the singularities of art deserve to be noticed no
38        1, XXXI    |         with the singularities of art.~For example, a singular
39        1, XXXI    |            a singular instance of art is paper, a thing exceedingly
40        1, XXXIX   |          dishonor to the works of art. The truth however is only
41        1, XLI     |         the rude materials of the art and then the completed works,
42        1, XLVIII  |       proceeds, so to speak, with art and by insinuation, and
43        1, L       |     nature prevents annihilation, art prevents also the loss or
44        1, L       |           whether in nature or in art, is the great instrument
45        1, L       |           they may be imitated by art. Such we see in the sweating
46        1, LI      | transformation of bodies) so that art may be enabled to do in
47        1, LII     |        nature, as examples of the art I teach. It appears then