Advancement of LearningAmerican Home Library, 1902 - 431 sider |
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... tion . Due care also has been taken to point out the sources whence Bacon drew his extraordinary stores of learning , by furnishing authorities for the quotations and allusions in the text , so that the reader may view at a glance the ...
... tion . Due care also has been taken to point out the sources whence Bacon drew his extraordinary stores of learning , by furnishing authorities for the quotations and allusions in the text , so that the reader may view at a glance the ...
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... tion , or advancement of all kinds of knowledge , infinitely beyond the power of mortals to execute ; while in reality , it is the genuine stop and prevention of infinite error . Indeed , as our state is mortal , and human , a full ...
... tion , or advancement of all kinds of knowledge , infinitely beyond the power of mortals to execute ; while in reality , it is the genuine stop and prevention of infinite error . Indeed , as our state is mortal , and human , a full ...
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... tion . As such notions are more general than the individual cases out of which they arise , it follows that this inquiry must be made through the medium of induction , and the essential merit of Bacon lies in framing a system of rules ...
... tion . As such notions are more general than the individual cases out of which they arise , it follows that this inquiry must be made through the medium of induction , and the essential merit of Bacon lies in framing a system of rules ...
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... tion to philosophy . For as no fine method of demonstra- tion , or form of explaining nature , can preserve the mind from error , and support it from falling ; so neither can it hence receive any matter of science . Those , therefore ...
... tion to philosophy . For as no fine method of demonstra- tion , or form of explaining nature , can preserve the mind from error , and support it from falling ; so neither can it hence receive any matter of science . Those , therefore ...
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... tion , or the strictest scrutiny of examination ; and not heightening what is delivered to increase its miraculous- ness , but thoroughly purging it of superstition and fable . Besides this , we reject , with a particular mark ...
... tion , or the strictest scrutiny of examination ; and not heightening what is delivered to increase its miraculous- ness , but thoroughly purging it of superstition and fable . Besides this , we reject , with a particular mark ...
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Side 345 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Side 85 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Side 40 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Side 66 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets. Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Side 199 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Side 55 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
Side 354 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Side 66 - But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man; so the end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate and reject vain speculations, and whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve and augment whatsoever is solid and fruitful...
Side 42 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Side 57 - ... laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it...