Of the Advancement of LearningJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1915 - 244 Seiten |
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... Speech . ( i ) Of Judgment , whose Methods are- ( a ) Of Direction ( Analytics ) . ( b ) Of Caution ( Elenches ) . ( iii . ) Of Custody . ( a ) By Writing . ( b ) By Memory . ( a ) Prenotion . ( 8 ) Emblem . ( iv ) Of Tradition . ( De ...
... Speech . ( i ) Of Judgment , whose Methods are- ( a ) Of Direction ( Analytics ) . ( b ) Of Caution ( Elenches ) . ( iii . ) Of Custody . ( a ) By Writing . ( b ) By Memory . ( a ) Prenotion . ( 8 ) Emblem . ( iv ) Of Tradition . ( De ...
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... speech , I call to mind what Cornelius Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar : Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit.2 For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that ...
... speech , I call to mind what Cornelius Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar : Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit.2 For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that ...
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... speech.3 ( 1. ) But these , and the like imputations , have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that both in persons and in times , there hath been a meeting and concurrence in ...
... speech.3 ( 1. ) But these , and the like imputations , have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice : for experience doth warrant , that both in persons and in times , there hath been a meeting and concurrence in ...
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... speech for a lover , and not for a wise man : Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.1 Nevertheless I shall yield , that he that cannot contract the sight of his mind as well as disperse and dilate it , wanteth a great faculty . But ...
... speech for a lover , and not for a wise man : Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.1 Nevertheless I shall yield , that he that cannot contract the sight of his mind as well as disperse and dilate it , wanteth a great faculty . But ...
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... speech , without regard to the pure- ness , pleasantness , and , as I may call it , lawfulness of the 1 Discourse of reason ; a proper logical term . Cf. Sanderson , Ars Log . III . i . 2 phrase or word . And again , because the ...
... speech , without regard to the pure- ness , pleasantness , and , as I may call it , lawfulness of the 1 Discourse of reason ; a proper logical term . Cf. Sanderson , Ars Log . III . i . 2 phrase or word . And again , because the ...
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Seite 27 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator...
Seite 34 - 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...
Seite 81 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Seite 9 - 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 endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Seite 201 - ... with a whirlwind or tempest of ambition, ought in the pursuit of their own fortune to set before their eyes not only that general map of the world, "That all things are vanity and vexation of spirit...
Seite 54 - ... some ants carry corn, and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments of virtue and imperfections of manners.
Seite 63 - For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs but it is the stirring of the earth and putting new mould about the roots that must work it.
Seite 34 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention...
Seite 204 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Seite 29 - And as for the overmuch credit that hath been given unto authors in sciences, in making them dictators, that their words should stand, and not consuls to give advice; the damage is infinite that sciences have received thereby, as the principal cause that hath kept them low, at a stay without growth or advancement.