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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... errors and imperfections of learned men themselves . 2. I hear the former sort say , that Knowledge is of those things ... error of this opinion , and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof , it may well appear these men do not ...
... error to commit a natural body to empiric physi- cians, which commonly have a few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adventurous, but know neither the causes of dis- eases, nor the complexions of patients, nor peril of ...
... errors of Clement the seventh , so lively described by Guicciardine , 29 who served under him , or into the errors of Cicero , painted out by his own pencil in his Epistles to Atticus , and he will fly apace from being irresolute . Let ...
... same caveat , Non ad vetera instituta revocans quae jampridem corruptis moribus ludibrio sunt , 48 and Cicero noteth this error directly in Cato the second , when he writes to his friend Atticus ; Cato optime sentit , sed 18 FRANCIS BACON.
... 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.