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1 Not| generally mistaken, and that men were never well advised 2 1| a second cause doth make men more devoutly to depend 3 1| scorned the pretended learned men of his time for raising 4 1| SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND ANGELS, (there is knowledge, 5 1| the ordinary ambitions of men lead them to seek the amplification 6 1| ambition than that hath moved men to seek the amplification 7 4| things it is the manner of men first to wonder that any 8 4| of tenures reserved upon men’s lands, as in divers customs 9 4| one: In the latter many men’s wits spent to deprave 10 4| his strength.~Then begin men to aspire to the second 11 7| sensible to think that when men enter first into search 12 7| are beaten over, and then men having made a taste of all 13 8| minds and affections of men by speech, maketh great 14 8| sciences we see that if men fall to subdivide their 15 9| GENERALLY MISTAKEN, AND THAT MEN WERE NEVER WELL ADVISED 16 9| the wits and labours of men have been converted to the 17 9| rounding up and down. But if men have failed in their very 18 9| Now it hath fared with men in their contemplations 19 9| course very ordinary with men who receive for the most 20 9| namely satisfaction (which men call truth) and not operation. 21 9| particulars being first found, men did fall on glossing and 22 11| when the butt is set up men need not rove, but except 23 11| except the white be placed men cannot level. This perfection 24 11| purpose is not to stir up men’s hopes, but to guide their 25 11| convertible, and which the latter men have not without elegancy 26 11| divers things which many men know by instruction and 27 11| as I wonder at some blind men, to see what shift they 28 11| like observations, to move men to search out and upon search 29 12| the truth of knowledge, men have put themselves upon 30 18| hurtful than two; the one that men have used of a few observations 31 18| it into method, whereby men grow satisfied and secure, 32 18| matter; the other, that men have used to discharge ignorance 33 18| good faith. That although men be free from these errors 34 19| invention of knowledge, and that men have not known their own 35 19| true and erroneous grounds men may meet in consequence 36 19| of one age cannot advance men to the furthest point of 37 19| course doth in sort equal men’s wits, and leaveth no great 38 22| in that they do not put men in mind of their familiar 39 22| that they seem to teach men that they know not, and 40 25| adverse to knowledge; because men having liberty to inquire 41 25| theological discourse; whereas if men’s wits be shut out of that