
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
p, 125
New Fragments (1892)
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 297
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.
“A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.”
Letter to Richard Burke
Source: in R. B. McDowell and William B. Todd (eds), The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. 9: I: The Revolutionary War, 1794-1797; II: Ireland. p. 647
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Period I To the Revival of Letters in Erope
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (1772)
Context: Great as Bacon was, he was far from being free from the mistakes and prejudices of those who went before him. Even some of the most wild and absurd opinions of the antients have the sanction of his approbation and authority. He does not hesitate to assent to an opinion... that visual rays proceed from the eye; giving this reason for it, that every thing in nature is qualified to discharge its proper functions by its own powers, in the same manner as the sun, and other celestial bodies. He acknowledges, however, that the presence of light, as well as several other circumstances, is necessary to vision.