The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and HumanW. Pickering, 1825 - 402 oldal |
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... errors of learned men Distempers of learning Peccant humours of learning Advantages of learning Divine proofs PAGE 6 · 9 14 25 38 52 • 61 61 71 Human proofs WHAT HAS BEEN done for the advancement of learning , and what omitted Places of ...
... errors of learned men Distempers of learning Peccant humours of learning Advantages of learning Divine proofs PAGE 6 · 9 14 25 38 52 • 61 61 71 Human proofs WHAT HAS BEEN done for the advancement of learning , and what omitted Places of ...
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... errors and imper- fections of learned men themselves . I hear the former sort say , that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution ; that the aspiring to over- much knowledge , was the ...
... errors and imper- fections of learned men themselves . I hear the former sort say , that knowledge is of those things which are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution ; that the aspiring to over- much knowledge , was the ...
7. oldal
... error of this opinion , and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof , it may well appear these men do not observe or consider , that it was not the pure knowledge of nature and universality ) a knowledge by the light whereof man did ...
... error of this opinion , and the misunderstanding in the grounds thereof , it may well appear these men do not observe or consider , that it was not the pure knowledge of nature and universality ) a knowledge by the light whereof man did ...
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... for matter of policy and government , that learning should rather hurt , than enable thereunto , is a thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric phy- 16 OF THE PROFICIENCE AND.
... for matter of policy and government , that learning should rather hurt , than enable thereunto , is a thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric phy- 16 OF THE PROFICIENCE AND.
17. oldal
... error to rely upon advocates or lawyers , which are only men of practice , and not grounded in their books , who are many times easily surprised , when matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they ...
... error to rely upon advocates or lawyers , which are only men of practice , and not grounded in their books , who are many times easily surprised , when matter falleth out besides their experience , to the prejudice of the causes they ...
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313. oldal - 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.
158. oldal - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
13. oldal - Jupiter's chair. ^<fo 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...
57. oldal - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
309. oldal - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
364. oldal - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
267. oldal - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
226. oldal - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
52. oldal - ... for, as water will not ascend higher than the level of the first spring-head from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from Aristotle, and exempted from liberty of examination, will not rise again higher than the knowledge of Aristotle.
142. oldal - Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.