 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...excellent foundations of colleges in Europe, it is strange they should be all dedicated to certain professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For though all learning should be referred to action, yet we may here easily fall into the error of supposing... | |
 | England - 1854 - 758 pages
...mind was capable of embracingscience: "Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men jndge that learning is to be referred to action, they jndge well ; but in this they fall into the emu-... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are VOL. I. F all dedicated to professions, and none left free to...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are VOL. I. F all dedicated to professions, and none left free to...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...already attained. First, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...already attained, j First, therefore, amongst so many great foumfif-T tions of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...(£) Bacon says, first, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large. And this I take to be a great cause, that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...already attained. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | Education - 1829 - 592 pages
...true learning. ' First, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated. to professions,...referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1827 - 634 pages
...reasoning — ' Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe,' says the philosopher, ' I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large. This dedicating of foundations and donations to professory learning, hath not only had a malign aspect... | |
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First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should be referred to action, they... 
