 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 páginas
...which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | 1921 - 614 páginas
...remember the wise words of Francis Bacon and thus avoid the danger he indicates in that " philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and...stars, which give little light because they are so high."1 Let us follow the advice which he gives and turn to statesmen and diplomatists who have to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 páginas
...which have written of laws, have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Robert George Geale - 1925 - 184 páginas
...and the second with the problems of international trade. II. FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS. DECEMBER, 1923. " As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...which give little light because they are so high." — FRANCIS BACON. POLITICAL economy has been denned as " the study of mankind in the ordinary business... | |
 | Allen Oscar Hansen - 1926 - 360 páginas
...recapitulate his past or degenerate. Philosophy must be pragmatic. The author quoted from Bacon : " 'As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discoveries are in the stars, which give little light because they are so high.' (Vol. 2, p. 537.)"... | |
 | Allen Oscar Hansen - 1926 - 354 páginas
...recapitulate his past or degenerate. Philosophy must be pragmatic. The author quoted from Bacon : " 'As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discoveries are in the stars, which give little light because they are so high.' (Vol. 2, p. 537.)"... | |
 | Alexander Pearce Higgins - 1928 - 358 páginas
...remember the wise words of Francis Bacon and thus avoid the danger he indicates in that "philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and...stars, which give little light because they are so high."1 Let us follow the advice which he gives and turn to statesmen and diplomatists who have to... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 páginas
...which have written of laws, have written either as philosophers or as lawyers and never as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law and not what... | |
 | 1994 - 412 páginas
...which have written of laws have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...which give little light because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 páginas
...as it can be judged and savored in its sensible consequences, it escapes Bacon's famous dismissal: "As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws...imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as stars, which give little light because they are so high" (Advancement of Learning 1605). Conscientious... | |
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Notwithstanding, for the more public part of government, which is Laws, I think good to note only one deficience ; which is, that all those which have written of laws, have written either as philosophers or as lawyers, and none as statesmen. As for the... 
