 | 1846 - 492 pages
...the pleasure it affords) forces every thing else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...despises them, or gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction.'f Fancies are mistaken for facts, if they fall in with our darling theory ; facts are... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 612 pages
...tribe it affords,) forces every thing else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary,...distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, lather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions. It was well answered by him who was shown... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 850 pages
...pleasure it affords ), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions. ' See the articles АРРДВГПОЯ, ASTBOLOGT, AUUÜBY, CHARMS, DZMONOLOGY, DBEAM, OMENS, ORACLES,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...pleasure it affords ), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...contrary, yet either does not observe or despises them, of gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than... | |
 | Gypsy Lore Society - Romanies - 1891 - 436 pages
...the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions." The contempt of superior persons, proud of a thin veneer of culture, for the imperfect philosophy of... | |
 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and continuation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of ite first conclusions.' See the articles APPARITIONS, ASTROLOGY, AUGURIES, CHARM, DKMOXOLOGY, DKEAMI.NG,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 844 pages
...confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet Cither does not observe or despises them, or gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with noient and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.' See... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 540 pages
...the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...first conclusions. It was well answered by him" who has shown in a temple the votive tablets suspended by such as had escaped the peril of shipwreck, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 526 pages
...the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation : and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...of its first conclusions. It was well answered by himo who has shown in a temple the votive tablets suspended by such as had escaped the peril of shipwreck,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the...first conclusions. It was well answered by him» who has shown in a temple the votive tablets suspended by such as had escaped the peril of shipwreck, and... | |
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The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances... 
