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... wit and style , " said of him that he wrote philosophy " like a Lord Chancellor " . After two centuries in which that challenge was overborne by a chorus of admiration coming from men of science and men of letters alike , it has been ...
... wit and style , " said of him that he wrote philosophy " like a Lord Chancellor " . After two centuries in which that challenge was overborne by a chorus of admiration coming from men of science and men of letters alike , it has been ...
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... wit be meant the power of perceiving analogies between things which appear to have nothing in common " , the feats of Bacon's wit in the Wisdom of the Ancients and the second book of the De Augmentis were not merely admirable , but ...
... wit be meant the power of perceiving analogies between things which appear to have nothing in common " , the feats of Bacon's wit in the Wisdom of the Ancients and the second book of the De Augmentis were not merely admirable , but ...
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... wit , his unrivalled power of speech . Hence , of all those who in or before his time warred by precept against the tyranny of tradition , he alone retains his spell . Ramus was slain by fanaticism ; but even his martyr's death has not ...
... wit , his unrivalled power of speech . Hence , of all those who in or before his time warred by precept against the tyranny of tradition , he alone retains his spell . Ramus was slain by fanaticism ; but even his martyr's death has not ...
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... wit , memory , judgment , and elocution . For the former three his books do abundantly speak them ; which 26 with what sufficiency he wrote , let the world judge ; but with what celerity he wrote them , I can best testify . But for the ...
... wit , memory , judgment , and elocution . For the former three his books do abundantly speak them ; which 26 with what sufficiency he wrote , let the world judge ; but with what celerity he wrote them , I can best testify . But for the ...
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... wit , as some do , to put his neighbours out of countenance : Convivantium neminem aut alios colloquen- tium pudore suffundere gloriæ sibi duxit , sicut nonnulli gestiunt . still retained 32 ; as if it had been natural DR . RAWLEY'S ...
... wit , as some do , to put his neighbours out of countenance : Convivantium neminem aut alios colloquen- tium pudore suffundere gloriæ sibi duxit , sicut nonnulli gestiunt . still retained 32 ; as if it had been natural DR . RAWLEY'S ...
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Seite 45 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Seite 60 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Seite 88 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Seite 288 - The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Seite 74 - ... 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?
Seite 54 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...
Seite 135 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Seite 79 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Seite 554 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Seite 72 - It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like; and, therefore, I will conclude with that which hath...