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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... side . Another age brought over the learned of all nations to his party . It may be justly wondered at , that the lord Keeper , a minister of great observation on men and things , should have sent his son to travel at the age of sixteen ...
... side . Another age brought over the learned of all nations to his party . It may be justly wondered at , that the lord Keeper , a minister of great observation on men and things , should have sent his son to travel at the age of sixteen ...
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... side , and to enlighten it in all its views . As the name of Sir Edward Coke will occur oftener than once in this history , and as he stood in particular competition to Bacon , I beg leave to dwell a little longer on his character . In ...
... side , and to enlighten it in all its views . As the name of Sir Edward Coke will occur oftener than once in this history , and as he stood in particular competition to Bacon , I beg leave to dwell a little longer on his character . In ...
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... side . Though it still remains doubtful whe- ther the ancients were so knowing as he attempts to shew they were , the variety and depth of his own knowledge are , in that very attempt , unquestionable . Hobart being advanced to the ...
... side . Though it still remains doubtful whe- ther the ancients were so knowing as he attempts to shew they were , the variety and depth of his own knowledge are , in that very attempt , unquestionable . Hobart being advanced to the ...
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... sides at once ; to go directly against his former opi- nion ; and to offer unasked his interest in the young lady's mother for promoting the match he had just been labouring to disappoint . On such trivial acci- dents do the fortunes of ...
... sides at once ; to go directly against his former opi- nion ; and to offer unasked his interest in the young lady's mother for promoting the match he had just been labouring to disappoint . On such trivial acci- dents do the fortunes of ...
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... sides of the question : from which , after viewing them in all possible lights , to be sure that no contradictory instances can be brought , some portion of useful truth , leading on to further discoveries , may be at last fairly ...
... sides of the question : from which , after viewing them in all possible lights , to be sure that no contradictory instances can be brought , some portion of useful truth , leading on to further discoveries , may be at last fairly ...
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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...