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slow advancement and the sense of wasted powers , that he learned something of the necessary arts of courts . Those who check Macaulay's essay by Spedding's commentary will realize how far he was at all times from self - prostration ...
slow advancement and the sense of wasted powers , that he learned something of the necessary arts of courts . Those who check Macaulay's essay by Spedding's commentary will realize how far he was at all times from self - prostration ...
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... sense . It stopped at the first check from good sense . " In the same fashion we are told on the one hand that Bacon the person who first turned the minds of speculative men , long occupied in verbal disputes , to the discovery of new ...
... sense . It stopped at the first check from good sense . " In the same fashion we are told on the one hand that Bacon the person who first turned the minds of speculative men , long occupied in verbal disputes , to the discovery of new ...
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... sense - are the motus antitypiæ , which secures the impene- trability of matter ; the motus nexûs , commonly called the motus ex fugâ vacui , & c .; and of these motions fourteen are mentioned . This list however does not profess to be ...
... sense - are the motus antitypiæ , which secures the impene- trability of matter ; the motus nexûs , commonly called the motus ex fugâ vacui , & c .; and of these motions fourteen are mentioned . This list however does not profess to be ...
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... senses , the ministration to the memory , and the ministration to the reason . In the first of these , three things ... sense may be assisted ; and the third , how to form a satis- factory collection of facts . He then proposes to go on ...
... senses , the ministration to the memory , and the ministration to the reason . In the first of these , three things ... sense may be assisted ; and the third , how to form a satis- factory collection of facts . He then proposes to go on ...
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... senses , or which would be so if the senses were sufficiently acute . In this they altogether agree with Bacon , who , though he often speaks of the errors and shortcomings of the senses , yet had never been led to consider the question ...
... senses , or which would be so if the senses were sufficiently acute . In this they altogether agree with Bacon , who , though he often speaks of the errors and shortcomings of the senses , yet had never been led to consider the question ...
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Page 45 - ... 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 60 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 88 - 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...
Page 288 - The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Page 74 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 54 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...
Page 135 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Page 79 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 554 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 72 - It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like; and, therefore, I will conclude with that which hath...