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... second book , after various preliminary ob- servations , and particularly upon the defects of universities , of which , from the fuppofition that they are formed rather for the discovery of new Knowledge than for diffufing the Knowledge ...
... second book , after various preliminary ob- servations , and particularly upon the defects of universities , of which , from the fuppofition that they are formed rather for the discovery of new Knowledge than for diffufing the Knowledge ...
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... second Causes doth derogate from our dependance upon GOD , who is the first cause . To discover then the ignorance and error of this opinion , and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof , it may well appear these men do not ob ...
... second Causes doth derogate from our dependance upon GOD , who is the first cause . To discover then the ignorance and error of this opinion , and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof , it may well appear these men do not ob ...
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... second , That we make application of our Know- ledge , to give ourselves repofe and contentment , and not diftaste or repining : the third , That we do not prefume by the contemplation of nature to attain to the Mysteries of God . For ...
... second , That we make application of our Know- ledge , to give ourselves repofe and contentment , and not diftaste or repining : the third , That we do not prefume by the contemplation of nature to attain to the Mysteries of God . For ...
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... second , certain it is , there is no vexation or anxiety of mind which refulteth from knowledge , otherwise than merely by accident ; for all know- ledge , and wonder ( which is the feed of know- ledge ) is an impreffion of pleasure in ...
... second , certain it is , there is no vexation or anxiety of mind which refulteth from knowledge , otherwise than merely by accident ; for all know- ledge , and wonder ( which is the feed of know- ledge ) is an impreffion of pleasure in ...
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... second caufes fhould make a more de- vout dependence upon GOD , which is the first cause ; First , it is good to ask the question which Job afked of his friends : Will you lie for GOD , as one man will do for another , to gratify him ...
... second caufes fhould make a more de- vout dependence upon GOD , which is the first cause ; First , it is good to ask the question which Job afked of his friends : Will you lie for GOD , as one man will do for another , to gratify him ...
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Page 40 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby, but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work but of no substance or profit.
Page 89 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Page 13 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 122 - POESY is a part of learning in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined ; and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things ;
Page 122 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page x - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 144 - For to say that the hairs of the eyelids are for a quickset and fence about the sight ; or, that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold ; or, that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
Page 14 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...