The Advancement of LearningThe Floating Press, 1. aug. 2010 - 339 sider Philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, lawyer, and prolific author -- Francis Bacon was a true polymath and Renaissance man, and is regarded as one of the progenitors of the school of thought known as Empiricism, as well as the scientific method. In this volume, Bacon discusses a remarkably wide-ranging array of philosophical and scientific subjects, putting the mind-boggling breadth of his knowledge on full display. |
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Side 12
... judgment, and the facility and order of your elocution: and I have often thought that of all the persons living that I have known, your Majesty were the best instance to make a man of Plato's opinion, that all knowledge is but ...
... judgment, and the facility and order of your elocution: and I have often thought that of all the persons living that I have known, your Majesty were the best instance to make a man of Plato's opinion, that all knowledge is but ...
Side 14
... judgment is truly made. For it seemeth much in a king if, by the compendious extractions of other men's wits and labours, he can take hold of any superficial ornaments and shows of learning, or if he countenance and prefer learning and ...
... judgment is truly made. For it seemeth much in a king if, by the compendious extractions of other men's wits and labours, he can take hold of any superficial ornaments and shows of learning, or if he countenance and prefer learning and ...
Side 30
... most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes. (9) And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the same kind 30.
... most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes. (9) And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the same kind 30.
Side 39
... judgment. For the honest and just bounds of observation by one person upon another extend no further but to understand him sufficiently, whereby not to give him offence, or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel, or whereby to ...
... judgment. For the honest and just bounds of observation by one person upon another extend no further but to understand him sufficiently, whereby not to give him offence, or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel, or whereby to ...
Side 40
... judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller. But this consequence doth oft deceive men, for which I do refer them over to that which was said by Themistocles, arrogantly and uncivilly being ...
... judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find wanting in them in smaller. But this consequence doth oft deceive men, for which I do refer them over to that which was said by Themistocles, arrogantly and uncivilly being ...
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IX | 169 |
X | 174 |
XI | 186 |
XII | 190 |
XIII | 194 |
XIV | 204 |
XV | 212 |
XVI | 215 |
VII | 73 |
VIII | 92 |
The Second Book | 101 |
I | 113 |
II | 119 |
III | 130 |
IV | 134 |
V | 139 |
VI | 144 |
VII | 147 |
VIII | 159 |
XVII | 220 |
XVIII | 228 |
XIX | 235 |
XX | 240 |
XXI | 249 |
XXII | 260 |
XXIII | 277 |
XXIV | 317 |
XXV | 319 |
Endnotes | 338 |
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