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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... actions and purposes ; and concludeth thus : God hath made all things beautiful , or decent , in the true return of their seasons : Also he hath placed the world in man's heart , yet cannot man find out the work which God worketh from ...
... action and business , and bringeth them to a love of leisure and privateness ; and that it doth bring into states a relaxation of discipline , whilst every man is more ready to argue than to obey and execute . Out of this conceit , Cato ...
... action ac- cording to nature , as agreeable to health of mind as exercise is to health of body , taking pleasure in the action itself , and not in the purchase : so that of all men they are the most indefatigable , if it be towards any ...
... and carriage , and commit errors in small and ordinary points of action , so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller . 20 FRANCIS BACON.
... action commonly spo- ken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man ...