The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C.and J. Rivington, 1826 |
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... seemeth to be no less contention be- tween the excellency of your Majesty's gifts of nature , and the universality and perfection of your learning . For I am well assured , that this which I shall say is no amplification at all , but a ...
... seemeth to be no less contention be- tween the excellency of your Majesty's gifts of nature , and the universality and perfection of your learning . For I am well assured , that this which I shall say is no amplification at all , but a ...
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... seemeth the reprehension of St. Paul was not only proper for those times , but prophetical for the times following ; and not only respective to divinity , but extensive to all knowledge : " Devita profanas vocum novitates , et ...
... seemeth the reprehension of St. Paul was not only proper for those times , but prophetical for the times following ; and not only respective to divinity , but extensive to all knowledge : " Devita profanas vocum novitates , et ...
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... seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge , which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts ; but then , " Candida succinctam latran- tibus inguina monstris : " so the generalities of the 30 ...
... seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge , which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts ; but then , " Candida succinctam latran- tibus inguina monstris : " so the generalities of the 30 ...
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... seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father . For as he de- voureth his children , so one of them seeketh to de- vour and suppress the other , while antiquity envieth there should be new additions ...
... seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father . For as he de- voureth his children , so one of them seeketh to de- vour and suppress the other , while antiquity envieth there should be new additions ...
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... seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream , which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up , and sinketh and drown- eth that which is weighty and solid . Another error , of a diverse nature from all the former , is ...
... seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream , which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up , and sinketh and drown- eth that which is weighty and solid . Another error , of a diverse nature from all the former , is ...
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Page 39 - 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 reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 27 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 30 - 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 64 - 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 28 - Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter...
Page 139 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Page 27 - 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.
Page 61 - The good parts he hath he will learn to show to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof.
Page 63 - It is a view of delight (saith he) to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain. But it is a pleasure incomparable, for the mind of man to be settled, landed, and fortified in the certainty of truth; and from thence to descry and behold the errors, perturbations, labours, and wanderings up and down of other men.
Page 46 - God ; laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error; first the scriptures, revealing the will of God, and then the creatures expressing his power ; whereof the latter is a key unto the former : not only opening our understanding to conceive the true sense of the scriptures...