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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... less contention between the excellency of your Majesty's gifts of nature and the universality and perfection of your learning . For I am well assured that this which I shall say is no amplification at all , but a positive and measured ...
... less extend the soul of man , but God and the contemplation of God ; and therefore Salomon , speak- ing of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ...
... less , if it be taken without the true corrective thereof , hath in it some nature of venom or malignity , and some effects of that venom , which is ventosity or swelling . This cor- rective spice , the mixture whereof maketh Knowledge ...
... less disproof or excusation . 7. Another fault incident commonly to learned men , which may be more probably defended than truly denied , is , that they fail sometimes in applying themselves to particular persons : which want of exact ...
... less as- severation, as they stand in a man's own judgment proved more or less. 10. Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to them- selves, whereunto they bend their endeavours; for whereas the more constant and devote ...