The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... better oblation than of some Treatise tending to that end , whereof the sum will consist of these two parts ; the former , con- cerning the excellency of Learning and Knowledge , and the excellency of the merit and true glory in the ...
... better , and to suppress truth by force of eloquence and speech . 2. But these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that 26 both in persons and in times ...
... better nor the like instance, as of that pair, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar the Dictator; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence: or if any man had rather call for ...
... better with ancient examples than with those of the later or immediate times ; and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning than one man's means can hold way with a common purse . 4. And as for those particular ...
... better done by others ) , and then the question is but how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent ; whether in pleasures or in studies ; as was well answered by Demosthenes to his adversary Aeschines , that was a ...