Francis BaconBritish Council, 1978 - 46 páginas 'He is the supreme English exemplar of the Baroque Man, a master of the traditions and methods of the past, able to exploit or surpass or vary them with adroit dislocations, reversals, twistings .... His goal was power for grand ends and philanthropic glory. He won both, and contempt as well.' So Professor Patrick sums up the career of Francis Bacon, one of the most versatile and many-sided of men in an age of extraordinary virtuosity and versatility. 'I have taken all knowledge to be my province', he wrote at the age of twenty-three, and he interested himself in all branches of learning known to his age. A superb English stylist distinguished in law and politics, he also awakened his contemporaries to the potentialities and achievements of science. He could assume any role and, as Professor Patrick points out, this suppleness has ensured that today, more than four hundred years since his birth, the controversies over his career and achievements still continue |
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... knowledge drawn freshly and in our view out of particulars , knoweth the best way to particulars again ' : III , 453 ... knowledge , that is , the influence on men's mores and behaviour of such factors as age , health and sickness ...
... knowledge . Of all the many attacks on scholasticism over a three - hundred year period few are as brilliant as that in Book I of the Advancement of Learning . Bacon's case is that knowledge , if isolated from criticism and growth ...
... knowledge is a tour de force , not least in the number of concrete proposals which Bacon makes for its improvement ( he is the first to suggest the value of a history of literature , a history of science and knowledge in general ) . The ...
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Writers and Their Work: Francis Bacon ; by Brian Vickers, Tema 265 Brian Vickers Sin vista previa disponible - 1977 |