...our power of discovery ; while the Master whom they profess implicitly to follow, seems to deride " the received and inveterate opinion, that the inquisition...to find out essential forms or true differences," and asserts, that " the invention of forms is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought."...

...found out. Which opinion, in the mean, gives and grants us thus much ; that the invention of formes is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought, if it be possible they may be found. And as for possibility of invention, there are some faint-hearted discoverers, who,...

...found out. Which opinion, in the mean, gives and grants us thus much ; that the invention of formes is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought, if it be possible they may be found. And as for possibility of invention, there are some faint-hearted discoverers, who,...

...whom they profess implicitly to follow, seems to deride " the received and inveterate opinion, tin! the inquisition of man is not competent to find out essential forms or true differences,"' and asserts, that " the invention of forms is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought.''...

...can by no diligence of man be found out. Which opinion, in the main, gives and grants us thus much : that the invention of forms is of all other parts...knowledge the worthiest to be sought, if it be possible they may be found. And as for possibility of invention, there are some faint-hearted discoverers, who,...

...assigned unto it the inquiry of formal and final causes ; which assignation, as to the former of them, may seem to be nugatory and void, because of the received...to be sought, if it be possible to be found. As for thepossibility, they are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but...

...but if we imagine that inquiry stops with this confession, and sit down, as Lord Bacon calls it, with the received and inveterate opinion, that the inquisition of man is not competent to find out such matters, we make the most unphilosophical assumption of all, and forge a chain, which may for...

...can by no diligence of man be found out. Which opinion, in the main, gives and grants us thus much : that the invention of forms is of all other parts...knowledge the worthiest to be sought, if it be possible they may be found. And as for possibility of invention, there are some faint-hearted discoverers, who,...

...our power of discovery ; while the Master whom they profess implicitly to follow, seems to deride " the received and inveterate opinion, that the inquisition...to find out essential forms or true differences," and asserts, that " the invention of forms is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought."...

...commonly employed at present, had for its proper object the investigation of forms. It was "a generally received and inveterate opinion, that the inquisition...to find out essential forms or true differences." Formae inventio, he says in another place, habetur pro desperata. The word form itself, being borrowed...