 Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the...  The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works - Page 291by Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas satculi Juventus \ v, . mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves. 2. Another error induced by the former is a distrust... | |
 | 1885 - 582 pages
...do not forget the dictum of Bacon, " Antiquitas sreculi, juventus mundi." " Those times," he says, " are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient. ' ordine retrograde,' by a computation backward from ourselves." Then again, anything which tends to illustrate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas sceculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times,...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves. Another error, induced by the former, is a distrust... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas saculi jurentus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves. Another error, induced by the former, is a distrust... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 pages
...(L.)1 — T lie olden time was the world's youth. On this Lord Bacon says (de Âugm. Se. lib. 1) : These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which are accounted ancient ordinc retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. Cf. Lord Tennyson,... | |
 | 1890 - 270 pages
...discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas sceculi, juvcntvs mundi. These times are the ancient times when the...is ancient, and not those which we account ancient. BACON : '' Advancement of Learning," book i. John Mill was not one from whose lips the advice, Stare... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pages
...the ancient times when the world is ancient ; and not those which we count anciunt ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves. " Another error induced by the former, is a distrust that anything should be now to be found out, which the world should have missed and passed over so long... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...that they are older than our own, alleging truly that " ANTIQUITAS SECULI JUVENTUS MUNDi, that our times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient,...retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves." 1 Throwing off, then, all allegiance to antiquity, he appealed directly from Aristotle to nature, from... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...ohserve the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grobs, or worms. " Antiqnitas saecnli jnventns mnndi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we acconnt ancient ordine retrograde, hy a compntation hackward from onrselves.1 Advancement of Learning.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...occurs as a quotation in Bacon's " Advancement of Learning," book i. (1605). Bacon explains it thus: " These times are the ancient times, when the world...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by computation backward from ourselves." Whewell has pointed out that the same thought... | |
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