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... likewise in these intellectual matters , there seemeth to be no less contention between the excellency of your ma- jesty's gifts of nature , and the universality and per- fection of your learning . For I am well assured , that this ...
... likewise in these intellectual matters , there seemeth to be no less contention between the excellency of your ma- jesty's gifts of nature , and the universality and per- fection of your learning . For I am well assured , that this ...
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... likewise most admired for learning ; so that the greatest authors and philosophers , and the greatest captains and governors , have lived in the same ages . Neither can it otherwise be for as , in man , the ripeness of the strength of ...
... likewise most admired for learning ; so that the greatest authors and philosophers , and the greatest captains and governors , have lived in the same ages . Neither can it otherwise be for as , in man , the ripeness of the strength of ...
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... likewise give fortune to particular persons . For it was well Boted long ago , that Homer hath given more men their livings , than either Sylla , or Cæsar , or Augus- tas ever did , notwithstanding their great largesses and donatives ...
... likewise give fortune to particular persons . For it was well Boted long ago , that Homer hath given more men their livings , than either Sylla , or Cæsar , or Augus- tas ever did , notwithstanding their great largesses and donatives ...
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... likewise , that some places instituted for physic have annexed the commodity of gardens for simples of all sorts , and do likewise command the use of dead bodies for anatomies . But these do respect but a few things . In general , there ...
... likewise , that some places instituted for physic have annexed the commodity of gardens for simples of all sorts , and do likewise command the use of dead bodies for anatomies . But these do respect but a few things . In general , there ...
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... likewise some barren relations touching the inventions of arts or usages . But a just story of learning , containing the anti- quities and originals of knowledges and their sects , their inventions , their traditions , their diverse ad ...
... likewise some barren relations touching the inventions of arts or usages . But a just story of learning , containing the anti- quities and originals of knowledges and their sects , their inventions , their traditions , their diverse ad ...
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Page 261 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 273 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page xxii - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 4 - 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 endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page liii - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 274 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...
Page viii - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 301 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 301 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 266 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.