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1 XII | little known, much less true philosophy. Lord Bacon, as is the fate 2 XII | scaffold with which the new philosophy was raised; and when the 3 XII | younger years the thing called philosophy in the Universities, and 4 XII | the father of experimental philosophy. It must, indeed, be confessed 5 XII | many men, and not to true philosophy, that most arts owe their 6 XII | acquainted with experimental philosophy, nor with the several physical 7 XII | little time experimental philosophy began to be cultivated on 8 XII | power.~This forerunner in philosophy was also an elegant writers, 9 XIII| against the sage, the modest philosophy of Mr. Locke, which so far 10 XIII| any such support. For what philosophy can be of a more religious 11 XIII| romances to one who studies philosophy. The thinking part of mankind 12 XIV | arrives in London, will find philosophy, like everything else, very 13 XIV | superiority of the English philosophy over that of the French. 14 XIV | conduct, in fortune, and in philosophy.~Nature had indulged Descartes 15 XIV | persecuted by the wretched philosophy of the schools. However, 16 XIV | only propositions of his philosophy which were true, he was 17 XIV | again pursued the study of philosophy, whilst the great Galileo, 18 XIV | several paths of natural philosophy. Nevertheless, he at last 19 XIV | forming hypotheses; and then philosophy was no more than an ingenious 20 XIV | will presume to compare his philosophy in any respect with that 21 XV | to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt 22 XV | and the rock against which philosophy split, placed by Aristotle 23 XV | signal service to natural philosophy. The spring that I discovered 24 XVII| their system of natural philosophy. As for instance, an astronomer 25 XVII| having improved natural philosophy, geometry, and history. 26 XXIV| mathematics and natural philosophy, and expresses an inclination