The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human ...W. Pickering, 1825 - 402 psl. |
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... Cicero's rival in eloquence : or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals , than generals that were great scholars , let him take Epaminondas the Theban , or Xenophon the Athe- nian ; whereof the one was the ...
... Cicero's rival in eloquence : or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals , than generals that were great scholars , let him take Epaminondas the Theban , or Xenophon the Athe- nian ; whereof the one was the ...
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... Cicero , painted out by his own pencil in his epistles to Atticus , and he will fly apace from being irresolute . Let him look into the errors of Phocion , and he will beware how he be obstinate or inflexible . Let him but read the ...
... Cicero , painted out by his own pencil in his epistles to Atticus , and he will fly apace from being irresolute . Let him look into the errors of Phocion , and he will beware how he be obstinate or inflexible . Let him but read the ...
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... Cicero , that to the memory of man are known . As for the accusa- tion of Socrates , the time must be remembered when it was prosecuted ; which was under the thirty tyrants , the most base , bloody , and envious persons that have ...
... Cicero , that to the memory of man are known . As for the accusa- tion of Socrates , the time must be remembered when it was prosecuted ; which was under the thirty tyrants , the most base , bloody , and envious persons that have ...
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... Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are com- monly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend sometimes too far to ...
... Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are com- monly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend sometimes too far to ...
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... Cicero doth excuse and expound the philosophers for going too far , and being too exact in their prescripts , when he saith , " Isti ipsi præceptores virtutis et magistri , videntur fines officiorum paulo longius quam natura vellet ...
... Cicero doth excuse and expound the philosophers for going too far , and being too exact in their prescripts , when he saith , " Isti ipsi præceptores virtutis et magistri , videntur fines officiorum paulo longius quam natura vellet ...
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13 psl. - 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...
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226 psl. - 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 psl. - ... 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.
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