 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which...was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect Its law is progress. A point which yesterday...was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1898 - 596 Seiten
...Macaulay said, in his brilliant essay on Bacon, that " it is a philosophy that never rests, which is never perfect, its law is progress, a point which...yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day and will be its starting-point to-morrow. ' ' This claim was made when modern science was, as yet, only a struggling... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable fame chiefly to this, that... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable fame chiefly to this, that... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which...to-day, and will be its starting post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable fame chiefly to this, that... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 Seiten
...Already nearly, or quite thirty knots, are accomplished. And it is true now as he said it was then, "Its law is progress; a point which yesterday was...invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting point to-morrow. ' ' A great impetus was given to steam navigation when iron and steel were substituted... | |
 | Verranus Morse - 1901 - 212 Seiten
...gathered but a part of its fruits — and its first fruits, for it is a philosophy which never rests; its law is progress — a point which yesterday was...invisible is its goal today and will be its starting point tomorrow ; and yet all this wisdom, all this power of intellect, did not raise his moral character... | |
 | University of Aberdeen - 1902 - 440 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress — a point which...invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting point to-morrow." A generation has passed away since those words were written. The tide of progress... | |
 | University of Aberdeen - 1902 - 450 Seiten
...and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect Its law is progress — a point which...invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting point to-morrow." A generation has passed away since those words were written. The tide of progress... | |
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For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow. 
