The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... Errors of Learned men OBJECTIONS WHICH DIVINES MAKE TO LEARNING . 1. The aspiring to Knowledge was the cause of the fall 2. Knowledge generates pride • 8 14 23 7 8 • 3. Solomon says there is no end of making books , and he that ...
... Errors of Learned men OBJECTIONS WHICH DIVINES MAKE TO LEARNING . 1. The aspiring to Knowledge was the cause of the fall 2. Knowledge generates pride • 8 14 23 7 8 • 3. Solomon says there is no end of making books , and he that ...
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... error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians , which commonly have a few pleasing receipts , whereupon they are confident and adventurous , but know neither the causes of diseases , nor the complexions of patients , nor peril of ...
... error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians , which commonly have a few pleasing receipts , whereupon they are confident and adventurous , but know neither the causes of diseases , nor the complexions of patients , nor peril of ...
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Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. cures ; we see it is a like error to rely upon advocates or lawyers , which ... errors of ' comparisons , and all the cautions of application . It makes them incompatible by dissimilitude of ...
Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. cures ; we see it is a like error to rely upon advocates or lawyers , which ... errors of ' comparisons , and all the cautions of application . It makes them incompatible by dissimilitude of ...
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... ERRORS OF LEARNED MEN . 1. From their fortunes . 2. From their manners . 3. From the nature of their studies . FIRST . OBJECTIONS TO LEARNING FROM THE FORTUNES OF LEARNED MEN . 1. Learned men are poor and live in obscurity . Learned men ...
... ERRORS OF LEARNED MEN . 1. From their fortunes . 2. From their manners . 3. From the nature of their studies . FIRST . OBJECTIONS TO LEARNING FROM THE FORTUNES OF LEARNED MEN . 1. Learned men are poor and live in obscurity . Learned men ...
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... error which descend in the storms of passions and perturbations . 5. Learning is power . ( 1 ) 6. Learning advances ... errors , perturbations , labours , and wanderings up and down of other men . " 66 8. Learning insures immortality ...
... error which descend in the storms of passions and perturbations . 5. Learning is power . ( 1 ) 6. Learning advances ... errors , perturbations , labours , and wanderings up and down of other men . " 66 8. Learning insures immortality ...
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Page 364 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page x - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of State, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page ix - 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 x - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page xv - So that 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 120 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical : because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...
Page 87 - ... 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 ix - 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 389 - ... some ants carry corn, and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments of virtue and imperfections of manners.
Page xxxv - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.