The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...Bell & Daldy, 1872 - 567 pages |
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... learning - That it is neither prosperous nor greatly advanced , and that a way must be opened to the human understand- ing entirely distinct from that known to our predecessors , and different aids procured , that the mind may exercise ...
... learning - That it is neither prosperous nor greatly advanced , and that a way must be opened to the human understand- ing entirely distinct from that known to our predecessors , and different aids procured , that the mind may exercise ...
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... LEARNING , IN NINE BOOKS . CONTENTS . BOOK I. The different Objections to Learning stated and confuted . Its Dignity and Merit maintained . BOOK II . CHAPTER I. General Division of Learning into History , Poetry , and Philosophy , ín ...
... LEARNING , IN NINE BOOKS . CONTENTS . BOOK I. The different Objections to Learning stated and confuted . Its Dignity and Merit maintained . BOOK II . CHAPTER I. General Division of Learning into History , Poetry , and Philosophy , ín ...
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... Learning - Poetry . Its Division into Narrative , Dramatic , and Parabolic . Three Examples of the latter species detailed . BOOK III . CHAPTER I. Division of Learning into Theology and Philosophy . The latter divided into the Knowledge ...
... Learning - Poetry . Its Division into Narrative , Dramatic , and Parabolic . Three Examples of the latter species detailed . BOOK III . CHAPTER I. Division of Learning into Theology and Philosophy . The latter divided into the Knowledge ...
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... . The Right Use of Reason in Matters of Faith . The Know- ledge of the Degrees of Unity in the City of God . The Emanations of the Holy Scriptures . ON THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . FIRST BOOK 26 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING .
... . The Right Use of Reason in Matters of Faith . The Know- ledge of the Degrees of Unity in the City of God . The Emanations of the Holy Scriptures . ON THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . FIRST BOOK 26 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING .
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Francis Bacon Joseph Devey. ON THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . FIRST BOOK . The Different Objections to Learning stated and confuted ; its Dignity and Merit maintained . TO THE KING . As under the old law , most excellent king ...
Francis Bacon Joseph Devey. ON THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . FIRST BOOK . The Different Objections to Learning stated and confuted ; its Dignity and Merit maintained . TO THE KING . As under the old law , most excellent king ...
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Page 418 - The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man ; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembles those uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
Page 53 - 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...
Page 174 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 43 - 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.
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Page 95 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...