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... men , ge- " nerally , come short of themselves when they strive " to out - doe themselves . They put a force upon " " the State of Learning ( to my power ) and not Glory ; and because my purpose was rather to excite other mens wits than ...
... men , ge- " nerally , come short of themselves when they strive " to out - doe themselves . They put a force upon " " the State of Learning ( to my power ) and not Glory ; and because my purpose was rather to excite other mens wits than ...
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... men fall who seek to fly up to the secrets of the Deity by the waxen wings of the senses . 5. Learned men are ... men's minds and makes them unfit for arms 14 Alexander the Great and Julius Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was ...
... men fall who seek to fly up to the secrets of the Deity by the waxen wings of the senses . 5. Learned men are ... men's minds and makes them unfit for arms 14 Alexander the Great and Julius Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was ...
Page ix
... men of practice , and not grounded in their books , who are many times easily surprised , when matter falleth out besides their experience to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so by like reason , it cannot be but a matter of ...
... men of practice , and not grounded in their books , who are many times easily surprised , when matter falleth out besides their experience to the prejudice of the causes they handle : so by like reason , it cannot be but a matter of ...
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... men more ready to argue than to obey 14 To say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood , is to affirm , that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light ...
... men more ready to argue than to obey 14 To say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood , is to affirm , that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light ...
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... men are engaged in mean employments as the education of youth . We see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel , than into a vessel seasoned ; and what mould they lay about a young plant , than about a plant corrobo- rate ...
... men are engaged in mean employments as the education of youth . We see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel , than into a vessel seasoned ; and what mould they lay about a young plant , than about a plant corrobo- rate ...
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Page 362 - 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.
Page ix - ... 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.
Page 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.
Page ix - 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...
Page xiii - 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?
Page 118 - 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 85 - ... 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...
Page 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.
Page 387 - ... 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.
Page xxxiii - 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.