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... hath been a great planter " of learning , not only in those places in the " church which have been in your own gift , but " also in your commendatory vote , no man hath " more constantly held ; let it be given to the most " deserving ...
... hath been a great planter " of learning , not only in those places in the " church which have been in your own gift , but " also in your commendatory vote , no man hath " more constantly held ; let it be given to the most " deserving ...
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... hath been or can be , hath , no question , many vacant times of leisure , while he expecteth the tides and returns of business . And then the question is , but , how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent ; whether ...
... hath been or can be , hath , no question , many vacant times of leisure , while he expecteth the tides and returns of business . And then the question is , but , how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent ; whether ...
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... hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments , as well for the disclosing of nature , as for the use of man's life . 2. In authors . Authors should be as consuls to advise , not as dictators to ...
... hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments , as well for the disclosing of nature , as for the use of man's life . 2. In authors . Authors should be as consuls to advise , not as dictators to ...
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... hath hindered the progression of learning , because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage . For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do , it is not any thing you can do to the boughs , but ...
... hath hindered the progression of learning , because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage . For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do , it is not any thing you can do to the boughs , but ...
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... hath severed , and sever that which nature hath joined ; and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things . Pictoribus atque poetis , Quidlibet audendi , semper fuit æqua ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . xxiii.
... hath severed , and sever that which nature hath joined ; and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things . Pictoribus atque poetis , Quidlibet audendi , semper fuit æqua ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . xxiii.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.