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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... excellent treasure of your own mind, and thence to extract particulars for this purpose, agreeably to your magnanimity and wisdom. I. 1. In the entrance to the former of these, to clear the way, and as it were to make silence, to have ...
... excellent thing to speak with the tongues of men and angels, but because, if it be severed from charity, and not referred to the good of men and mankind, it hath rather a sounding and unworthy glory, than a meriting and substantial 7 ...
... and countenance of two so learned Princes, Queen Elizabeth, and your Majesty, being as Castor and Pollux,lucida sidera,34stars of excellent light and most benign influence, hath wrought 15 THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING • BOOK ONE.
Francis Bacon. sidera,34stars of excellent light and most benign influence, hath wrought in all men of place and authority in our nation. III. 1. Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth ...