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" The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. "
The works of Francis Bacon - Page 97
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, live...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 36

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884 - 558 pages
...end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works

Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...object of the House to be " the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Here the literary interest ceases : for the rest of the fragment consists of little more than an enumeration...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - 1886 - 296 pages
...The_endjDf jDur foundation is.the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things | and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of...deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms ; and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you...
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The Wisdom of the Ancients and New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1886 - 220 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of...; and some of them are digged and made under great hilla and mountains^ qp that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave,...
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Francis Bacon und seine geschichtliche Stellung: ein analytischer Versuch

Hans Heussler - 1889 - 216 pages
...„The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of tihngs; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible;" Sap. Vet.': Sphinx s. Scientia, VI p. 679: „verae enim philosophiae naturalis finis proprius et ultimus...
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The Columbus of Literature

William Francis C. Wigston - 1892 - 270 pages
...represent and imitate all artificial sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds." " We have large and deep caves of several depths. The deepest are sunk six hundred fathoms, and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon...
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Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All ...

Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1892 - 582 pages
...president or father of the house, 'the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' The fellows of the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants of light, as...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus; More's Utopia; Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - 1896 - 294 pages
...things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the eifecting of all things possible, v " The preparations and instruments are these. We have...deep caves of several depths • the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms ; and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains ; so that if you...
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