The Advancement of Learning, Book 2Macmillan & Company, Limited, 1910 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according actions ancient argument Aristotle Augustus Cæsar axioms Bacon adds Bacon means Bacon says better body Cæsar causes character Church Cicero civil consider deficient Democritus Demosthenes discourse discovery divine doctrine doth duty effect Essay Eurybiades excellent experience formal causes fortune Francis Bacon Georgics Greek hath heaven human imagination induction inquiry instance invention judgement kind knowledge labour Latin learning likewise logic man's manner matter medicine memory men's ment metaphysic method MICHAEL MACMILLAN mind moral natural history natural philosophy natural theology object observations opinion Paracelsus particular passage phenomena physic Plato points practice precept principles propositions quotation which follows reason refers religion remarks rhetoric saith Scriptures seemeth sense Socrates sophisms soul speech spirit student substance syllogism Tacitus Themistocles theology things tion touching treatise true truth unto Virgil virtue wherein whereof wisdom wise words writing
Popular passages
Page 17 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 126 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 246 - Vespasianus mutatus in melius: though the one was meant of sufficiency, the other of manners and affection. It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends. For honour is, or should be, the place of virtue; and as in nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.
Page 27 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 247 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 71 - 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 17 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 20 - The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath ; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.
Page 299 - ... where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys who were scribes. This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.