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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... living that I have known , your Majesty were the best instance to make a man of Plato's opin- ion , 2 that all knowledge is but remembrance , and that the mind of man by nature knoweth all things , and hath but her own native and origi ...
... living in the eyes of men, are like images of Cassius and Brutus in the funeral of Junia: of which not being repre- sented, as many others were, Tacitus saith,Eo ipso praefulgebant, quod non visebantur.41 3. And for meanness of ...
... living creatures, hath mingled it sparingly with any vain or feigned matter: and yet on the other side, hath cast all prodigious narrations, which he thought worthy the record- ing, into one book:82 excellently discerning that matter of ...
... living in view of heaven , is a lively image of a contem- plative life ) , and that of the husbandman : 103 where we see again the favour and election of God went to the shepherd , and not to the tiller of the ground . 8. So in the age ...
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