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... noted to be infected ; but much more is this performed , if a man be able to visit and strengthen the roots and foundation of the science itself ; thereby not only gracing it in reputation and dignity , but also amplifying it in ...
... noted to be infected ; but much more is this performed , if a man be able to visit and strengthen the roots and foundation of the science itself ; thereby not only gracing it in reputation and dignity , but also amplifying it in ...
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... noted . For these designs of his were no slight , super ficial notions - mere desires and good wishes - but practicable and within compass . Having examined into the ancient arts , the next thing is to enable the human intellect to ...
... noted . For these designs of his were no slight , super ficial notions - mere desires and good wishes - but practicable and within compass . Having examined into the ancient arts , the next thing is to enable the human intellect to ...
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... noted " in the eight last books of the former work ; which embrace its two main divisions of memory and reason , or history and philosophy . The author had thus " made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world : " and we have ...
... noted " in the eight last books of the former work ; which embrace its two main divisions of memory and reason , or history and philosophy . The author had thus " made as it were a small globe of the intellectual world : " and we have ...
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... noted , that howsoever the condition of life of pedants hath been scorned upon theatres , as the ape of ty- ranny ; and that the modern looseness or negligence hath taken no due regard to the choice of school- masters and tutors ; yet ...
... noted , that howsoever the condition of life of pedants hath been scorned upon theatres , as the ape of ty- ranny ; and that the modern looseness or negligence hath taken no due regard to the choice of school- masters and tutors ; yet ...
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... noted in learned men , that they do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage , and com- mit errors in small and ordinary points of action , so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment ...
... noted in learned men , that they do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage , and com- mit errors in small and ordinary points of action , so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amongst ancient aphorisms appeareth Aristotle Augustus Cæsar Bacon better birds body Cæsar cause chiefly Cicero cold colour cometh conceive consort touching counsel divers divine doth drams earth effect excellent Experiment solitary touching Experiments in consort farther flame flowers Francis Bacon fruit give giveth glass goeth gold greater ground hath heat herbs honour humours imagination inquiry invention judgment kind king knowledge labour learning less light likewise liquor living creatures lord lord chancellor lordship Majesty maketh man's matter means men's metals mind moisture motion natural philosophy nature never nourishment observed opinion persons philosophy plants Plato princes putrefaction quicksilver reason roots saith sciences seed seemeth sense sort sound speak speech spirit of wine spirits string sweet Tacitus things tion trees true unto usury Vespasian virtue whereby wherein whereof wind wine wise wood
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 261 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 273 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite xxii - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Seite 4 - 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...
Seite liii - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Seite 274 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...
Seite viii - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 301 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Seite 301 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Seite 266 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.