...divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, "Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world" ; for...oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of...

...author. Upon such sciolists Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, Men sought wisdom in their own little worlds and not in the great and common world : for...so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works. First therefore men must be taught to put away their own hastily conceived prejudices, and to look...

...divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, " Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world ;" for...oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded. Another error that hath some connexion with this latter, is, that, men have used to infect their meditations,...

...substance or profit. ' Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying " Men sought truth in ' " their own little worlds, and not in the great and common ' "world;"...meditation and agitation of wit, do urge and as it were invo' cate their own spirits to divine, and give oracles unto them, ' whereby they are deservedly deluded.'...

...author. Upon such sciolists Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, Men sought wisdom in their own little worlds and not in the great and common world : for...disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read in the vohime of God's works. First therefore men must be taught to put away their own hastily conceived prejudices,...

...v., p. 426). Again : " Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying men sought wisdom in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world : for...by degrees to read in the volume of God's works." The thoughtful student may perhaps be inclined to think Bacon is hinting at the " volume of Nature...

...observe ; that is, the felicity wherewith he hath blessed an humility of mind, such as rather laboreth to spell and so by degrees to read in the volume of his creatures, than to solicit and urge and, as it were, to invocate a man's own spirit to divine and...

...and divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world; for they disdain 10 to spell, and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works : and contrariwise, by continual...

...divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, ' Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world ' ;...meditation and agitation of wit do urge and as it I 200 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNINGS were invocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto...

...rote, and could not spell." — Romeo and Juliet, ii. 3 (1597). From Bacon " Such as rather laboreth to spell and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's creatures." — Of the Interpretation of Nature (c. 1603). PEACE, " Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy...