Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre        |        without help or force of instruments, just as in things intellectual
 2      Pre        |  manifestly impossible, without instruments and machinery, either for
 3        1, II    |       can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work
 4        1, II    |        for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give
 5        1, II    |      motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either
 6        1, L     |         and erring; neither can instruments for enlarging or sharpening
 7        1, LXX   |        supply practice with its instruments, not one by one, but in
 8        1, LXXXV |    ruled motion of the hand and instruments — as the making of clocks (
 9        1, XCIX  |    construction of astronomical instruments; but that anything could
10        1, XCIX  |       tongue and lips and other instruments, and the changes through
11        1, XXXIX | increasing their apparent size; instruments by the aid of which the
12        1, XLIV  |     through the multiplicity of instruments, or through the bulk of
13        1, XLIV  |       to mankind; or which save instruments; or which spare material
14        1, XLVIII|         violent effort. Now the instruments of this motion, not indeed
15        1, XLVIII|        no more — as in stringed instruments, if after the first percussion
16        1, L     |     fresh demonstration. Of the instruments and contrivances themselves
17        1, L     |      seek, apply, and adapt our instruments when we are clear as to