Of the Advancement of LearningJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1915 - 244 Seiten |
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... Demosthenes to his adversary Æschines , that was a man given to pleasure , and told him , That his orations did smell of the lamp : Indeed ( said Demosthenes ) there is a great difference between the things that you and I do by lamp ...
... Demosthenes to his adversary Æschines , that was a man given to pleasure , and told him , That his orations did smell of the lamp : Indeed ( said Demosthenes ) there is a great difference between the things that you and I do by lamp ...
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... Demosthenes , Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are commonly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend some- times ...
... Demosthenes , Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are commonly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend some- times ...
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... Demosthenes , that Bona fama propria possessio defunc- torum ; which possession I cannot but note that in our times it lieth much waste , and that therein there is a deficience . 1 Ariosto , Orlando Furioso , end of bk . 34 , and ...
... Demosthenes , that Bona fama propria possessio defunc- torum ; which possession I cannot but note that in our times it lieth much waste , and that therein there is a deficience . 1 Ariosto , Orlando Furioso , end of bk . 34 , and ...
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... Demosthenes ; who , in regard of the great force that the entrance and access into causes hath to make a good impres- sion , had ready framed a number of prefaces for orations and speeches . All which authorities and precedents may ...
... Demosthenes ; who , in regard of the great force that the entrance and access into causes hath to make a good impres- sion , had ready framed a number of prefaces for orations and speeches . All which authorities and precedents may ...
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... Demosthenes and Cicero , added to the perfection of the precepts of eloquence , hath doubled the progression in this art ; and therefore the deficiencies which I shall note will rather be in some collections , which may as hand - maids ...
... Demosthenes and Cicero , added to the perfection of the precepts of eloquence , hath doubled the progression in this art ; and therefore the deficiencies which I shall note will rather be in some collections , which may as hand - maids ...
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Seite 20 - 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) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning,...
Seite 140 - The duty and office of Rhetoric is to apply Reason to Imagination ' for the better moving of the will.
Seite 29 - Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth ; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man...
Seite 2 - 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 49 - ... 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 58 - 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 29 - ... 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 20 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Seite 197 - 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 24 - 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.