The Advancement of LearningPaul Dry Books, 1. mars 2001 - 263 sider Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... Caesar:Augusto profluens, et quae principem deceret, eloquentia fuit.4 For if we note it well, speech that is uttered with labour and di‹culty, or speech that savoureth of the a¤ectation of art and precepts, or speech that is framed ...
... Caesar the Dictator; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence: or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals, than generals that were great scholars, let ...
... Caesars, which had the art of government in greatest perfection, there lived the best poet, Virgilius Maro; the best historiographer, Titus Livius; the best antiquary, Marcus Varro; and the best, or second orator, Marcus Cicero, that to ...
... tam diu paupertati ac parsimoniae honos fuerit.36 We see likewise, after that the state of Rome was not itself, but did degenerate, how that person that took upon him to be counsellor to Julius Caesar after his 16 FRANCIS BACON.
Francis Bacon. upon him to be counsellor to Julius Caesar after his victory where to begin his restoration of the state, maketh it of all points the most summary to take away the estimation of wealth:Verum haec et omnia mala pariter cum ...