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1 BCo| entered Aquarius about the 12th or 13th of January, 1603– 2 Not| namely, the l2th, 13th, and 14th, (over which is a running 3 Not| Abridgment of the 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. 4 Not| without any running title) the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th], 19th, 5 Not| ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING that in 1605 he was engaged upon a work 6 Pre| Stephens’s Letters and Remains [1734]. They consist partly of 7 Not| title) the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th], 19th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, 8 Not| 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th], 19th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, and 26th. 9 Not| 16th, 17th, 18th], 19th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, and 26th. These 10 26| CAP. 26.~Of the impediments which 11 BCo| same month in the 26th or 27th degree of Capricorn: —coincidences 12 BCo| perhaps the plague, of which 30,578 persons died in London, 13 BCo| libri dimidium est, pagina 34~Line 3: pagellarum numeri 14 Not| letter of Bacon’s, dated 3rd July 1603, that he had at 15 BCo| that the first figure of 45 may very well have been 16 BCo| the plague, of which 30,578 persons died in London, 17 Not| Museum; Harl. manuscripts 6462. It is a thin paper volume 18 BCo| Aquarius appears to be an abbreviation of that which usually represents 19 17| the work whereof is to abridge experience and to make things 20 8| they would have saved and abridged much of their long and wandering 21 4| methodical compounder and abridger. And this is the unfortunate 22 Not| 22nd, 25th, and 26th. These abridgments have no headings; and at 23 Not| three),—some breaking off abruptly, others being little more 24 11| somewhat which if it be absent the effect you seek will 25 12| of man in withdrawing and abstracting it from particulars, and 26 9| sense to make a wish not absurd.~ 27 9| impediments of time and accidents, though they have wrought 28 4| managed at first, by time accommodate and refined. The philosophies 29 18| filling it up with discourse, accommodating it with some circumstances 30 11| of your power or may be accompanied with an overvalue of prejudice; 31 8| or hard tune upon a sweet accord. The figure that Cicero 32 Not| composition so as to bring it into accordance with the views he then held; 33 4| hard to attempt than to achieve, which falleth out when 34 11| supernatural and divine; so I do acknowledge that if any man can by anticipations 35 1| religion and philosophy hath acknowledged goodness in perfection, 36 Not| MASCULUS,—a passage implying acquaintance with that fact. Does it 37 Pre| attained the mind would finally acquiesce.~Again, the obscurity of 38 10| Commentaries differeth from the acts of King Arthur or Huon of 39 1| limitation rather potential than actual, which is when the effect 40 Pre| it would be the TERMINUS AD QUEM in which when it was 41 4| comes shortest and time addeth and perfecteth. But in sciences 42 Not| containing alterations or additions made from time to time. 43 9| their very direction and address that error will never by 44 11| to shew the knowledges adjacent and confining. If therefore 45 4| every where betwixt states adjoining (the use of leagues and 46 1| otherwise be exercised and administered but with labour, as well 47 21| the two extreme humours of admiration of antiquity and love of 48 11| I for my part do indeed admire to see how far some of them 49 9| delectable, reverend, or admired discourse, or any satisfactory 50 18| stregthening of affection in the admitted. That there are other virtues 51 BCo| characters resemble those adopted to represent the planets 52 25| consisteth in rites and forms of adoration, and not in confessions 53 1| oracles of God’s works, and adored the deceiving and deformed 54 9| rather to defend and to adorn than to add; and if to add, 55 11| blackness with moisture; that adustion causeth blackness, and calcination 56 19| period of one age cannot advance men to the furthest point 57 Not| when Bacon published the ADVANCEMCNT OF LEARNING he was ignorant 58 1| danger in contending or advancing towards a similitude thereof, 59 8| resort, that receiveth the advertisements and certificates from all 60 8| for several countries and affairs, yet hath one council of 61 4| West–Indies principally affected; and to build sometimes 62 4| there: so I am not apt to affirm that they knew little, because 63 1| the same Salomon the king affirmeth directly that the glory 64 Not| inconsistent with the evidence afforded by these fragments.~That 65 11| the several veins of one agate or marble, by reason that 66 17| infinite experiences in ages.~ 67 19| opinion, which was long ago propounded, examined, and 68 Not| chapters so as to make it agree with the numbers. The latter 69 11| propound now that which is agreed to be worthiest to be sought, 70 8| and so one science greatly aiding to the invention and augmentation 71 1| because he was a minister he aimed at a supremacy; therefore 72 1| and abusing promises of Alchemists and Magicians, and such 73 4| extenuate the honour of Alexander’s conquests saith, NIHIL 74 4| reputation, which hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours 75 19| rule or compass it is much alike.~ 76 4| s conquests saith, NIHIL ALIUD QUAM BENE AUSUS VANA CONTEMNERE: 77 Not| positive ground indeed which he alleges in support of that conclusion 78 11| which they are pleased to allow; and therefore thus far 79 1| commandment of wits and means, alluding also to his own person, 80 1| earth, he was fittest to be allured with appetite of light and 81 8| cadence. And these are no allusions but direct communities, 82 7| opinions, but leave them aloof for the schools and table-talk. 83 13| these natures are as the alphabet or simple letters, whereof 84 13| all profound and radical alteration must arise out of the latter 85 11| an uncoloured body, as in amber, sapphires, etc. which beaten 86 1| themselves. And if the ordinary ambitions of men lead them to seek 87 17| reconcile the instance than to amend the rule. That if any have 88 17| be devised; which course amounteth but to a tedious curiosity, 89 1| divers others being born to ample patrimonies decayed them 90 1| their learning (whereas Anaxagoras contrariwise and divers 91 4| Aristotle doth, that saith our ancestors were extreme gross, as those 92 18| interpretation. That the discretion anciently observed, though by the 93 Not| a stage in his opinions anterior to the ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.~ 94 11| appeared. And the heresy of the Anthropomorphites was ever censured for a 95 9| but that every man wrought apart, and would either have his 96 8| in the one, which is more apparent in the other, yea and that 97 BCo| The two lower lines are apparently by another hand, probably 98 11| So as for whiteness in apparition only and representation 99 1| let it be believed, and appeal thereof made to Time, (with 100 11| whiteness fantastical or appearing, as shall be afterwards 101 Not| HUMANARUM, which was to be an appendix to the MAGIA NATURALIS. 102 8| knowledges, so far forth as may appertain to the handling and moving 103 8| other multiplication; which appetites are most evidently seen 104 11| more unperfect, if it do appoint you to such a relative as 105 1| a special prophecy, was appointed to this autumn of the world: 106 19| diffidence, and the strong apprehension of the difficulty, obscurity, 107 1| knowledge; therefore this approaching and intruding into God’s 108 4| deserts there: so I am not apt to affirm that they knew 109 8| and in man do make the aptest and most natural division 110 1| Nay further, as it was aptly said by one of Plato’s school 111 11| will produce colour; for AQUA FORTIS, oil of VITRIOL, 112 17| guide or keep on his course aright. That those that have been 113 1| secrets; an opinion that ariseth either of envy (which is 114 Not| it was his intention to arrange them; and because it proves 115 Not| of Nature.” Such was the arrangement of the manuscript as the 116 10| differeth from the acts of King Arthur or Huon of Bourdeaux in 117 4| and corrupteth. Painting, artillery, sailing, and the like, 118 17| inhibited till you have ascended to a certain stage and degree 119 Pre| idola.~It is impossible to ascertain the motive which determined 120 17| natures the effect is to be ascribed, and yet notwithstanding 121 25| simplicity and ignorance, as ascribing ordinary effects to the 122 BCo| a scientific friend and asked him if from such data he 123 9| question not impertinent, so it asketh some sense to make a wish 124 9| wish reasonably: for as it asks some knowledge to demand 125 7| HATH BEEN EVIL PLACED, FOR ASMUCH AS AFTER VARIETY OF SECTS 126 1| will be found to have much aspersion of natural philosophy. Nay, 127 4| strength.~Then begin men to aspire to the second prizes; to 128 11| confessing as much as yet assuming to myself little; for if 129 8| proportion, and approach or assumption; they would have saved and 130 Not| certain astronomical or astrological symbols written on the blank 131 Not| it be implied in certain astronomical or astrological symbols 132 1| philosophy inclineth the mind to atheism, but a further proceeding 133 17| themselves to experience, and attempted to induce knowledge upon 134 17| ignoble, and stayed their attention chiefly upon instances of 135 8| the motion (familiar in attraction of things) to approach to 136 10| those idle wits had the audacity to feign their supposed 137 8| aiding to the invention and augmentation of another. And therefore 138 8| universal knowledge to be augmented and rectified by the superior 139 BCo| Sagittarius about the 10th of August, 1603, and continued there 140 1| divine, which cometh IN AURA LENI without noise or observation.~ 141 4| saith, NIHIL ALIUD QUAM BENE AUSUS VANA CONTEMNERE: in which 142 1| holdeth superior and more authorised than itself.~To conclude, 143 1| be, there are besides the authorities of Scriptures before recited, 144 12| competent. That antiquity and authority; common and confessed notions; 145 Not| the more so because his autographs of this period are very 146 1| prophecy, was appointed to this autumn of the world: for to my 147 18| laid aside, both for the avoiding of abuse in the excluded, 148 Not| inquiry may be the more awake in deducing direction of 149 9| may at the least give some awaking note both of the wants in 150 11| giveth an impression of azure rather than of whiteness. 151 BCo| The blot between 1603 and B is nothing; being only meant 152 11| that the outward tokens and badges of excellency and perfection 153 11| ARE LIKE THE DUST UPON THE BALANCE, which is a thing appeareth 154 1| strong and sound head or bank to rule and guide the course 155 9| parts of use and generation, Barking Monsters; for no better 156 8| destitution became but a barren and unnoble science. And 157 9| now is hath the curse of barrenness, and is courtesanlike, for 158 22| vulgar in occurrency, and base and ignoble in use. That 159 11| true, but for a meaner and baser sort; as a dubline is more 160 1| yieldeth not the matter or basis whereupon man should work. 161 4| whereby this of knowledge bath been starved and overgrown; 162 8| figured, the one in the beams of heaven which issue forth, 163 11| four directions air still beareth a part. Let the fifth direction 164 BCo| the beginning of the line bears a near resemblance to the 165 11| become white; in wine and beer, which brought to froth 166 Not| where the NOVUM ORGANUM begins; and of which the first 167 16| of the opinions they have begot, such of them as have supplanted 168 8| eye abroad upon nature and beheld the appetite that is in 169 1| remember and be instructed; for behold it was not that pure light 170 1| inferior natures; but in all belief it suffereth from a spirit 171 25| and not in confessions and beliefs, is adverse to knowledge; 172 Pre| portions of the following tract belong to the same work, as it 173 BCo| the preceding January as belonging to the year 1603. Bacon 174 Not| which the mind of man is beset: the “caution” of which, 175 4| then almost every where betwixt states adjoining (the use 176 9| they not so peremptory and binding as the internal impediments 177 4| it hath been checked and blasted. Especially in that the 178 1| felicity wherewith he hath blessed an humility of mind, such 179 BCo| represents the Sun. (The blot between 1603 and B is nothing; 180 BCo| to represent a figure 6 blotted out with the finger before 181 1| saith excellently, knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth 182 7| things which are light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth 183 11| resemble most, as the white and blue violets, and the several 184 18| without number; but none more bold and more hurtful than two; 185 1| and divers others being born to ample patrimonies decayed 186 11| from whom Epicurus did borrow it) held that the position 187 4| Aristotle is to think that a borrowed light can increase the original 188 1| notwithstanding these precincts and bounds, let it be believed, and 189 10| of King Arthur or Huon of Bourdeaux in story. For it is true 190 Not| Bacon’s. The words between brackets have a line drawn through 191 1| discursion of the spirits in the brain: for as Salomon saith excellently, 192 1| Salomon the king, as out of a branch of his wisdom extraordinarily 193 4| knowledge but as the dawning or break of day. For at that time 194 1| records, which within those brief memorials of things which 195 1| but a further proceeding bringeth the mind back to religion.~ 196 11| by way of suggestion or bringing to mind it may draw your 197 Not| Oxford, and is now in the British Museum; Harl. manuscripts 198 11| in wine and beer, which brought to froth become white. Let 199 1| described by the sweat of the brows more than of the body; that 200 1| bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. And again the same author 201 11| fairest, as the horse, the bull, and the like, which found 202 11| comprehension. For Plato casteth his burden and saith THAT HE WILL REVERE 203 1| truly one of those clearest burning lamps, whereof himself speaketh 204 11| declination. For when the butt is set up men need not rove, 205 Not| the writing of it was a by-thought and no part of the work 206 Not| preface to NOVUM ORGANUM, note C. But I have to deal with 207 8| grace in flying the close or cadence. And these are no allusions 208 11| adustion causeth blackness, and calcination whiteness; that flowers 209 BCo| indicated. He found upon a rough calculation (taking account of mean 210 Not| Idols of the Forum, he there calls Idols of the Palace; and 211 Not| done it more completely or carefully,—only that he has given 212 7| afterwards are received and carried on, and the rest extinct.~ 213 1| serpentine, and therefore as carrying the quality of the serpent’ 214 11| comprehension. For Plato casteth his burden and saith THAT 215 19| diffidence hath moved and caused some never to enter into 216 11| moisture; that adustion causeth blackness, and calcination 217 18| CAP. 18.~That the cautels and devices put in practice 218 17| not been or shall not be cautioned by the full understanding 219 8| disputation, and advantages of cavillation, than many of these which 220 1| all that is green from the cedar to the moss, (which is but 221 1| OBSCURETH AND CONCEALETH THE CELESTIAL; so doth the sense discover 222 11| conceit bred in the obscure cells of solitary monks that never 223 9| inventions. And this did Celsus note wisely and truly, how 224 8| some places doth wisely censure, when he saith THESE ARE 225 8| receiveth the advertisements and certificates from all the rest. Hitherto 226 1| for that latter book will certify us that nothing which the 227 BCo| commencement, the duration, or the cessation of such an epidemic might 228 8| common discourse of the chain of sciences how they are 229 11| give a perfume to a whole chamber of air. And therefore when 230 4| commenter, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical 231 17| recompensed in the end; and that chance discovereth new inventions 232 1| which throughout all these changes are infallibly observed. 233 17| hath issued the infinite chaos of shadows and notions, 234 BCo| of Capricorn in its most characteristic feature. And the mark over 235 1| knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. And again the 236 1| to man by this so large a charter from God must be subject 237 4| weather by which it hath been checked and blasted. Especially 238 8| elegancy, which is the fine checking of expectation, is no less 239 11| four tables; a blank, a chequer, a fret, and a medley; whereof 240 25| the foundations,) or that cherisheth devotion upon simplicity 241 1| BECOME FIRST AS A LITTLE CHILD.~ 242 11| were an angel coined of China gold; in like manner the 243 11| greatest singularity of choice. Besides as a conjectural 244 18| characters of imposture, some choosing a style of pugnacity and 245 19| conclusion, as several lines or circles that cut in some one point. 246 11| now to reveal, so we are circumspect not to mislead; and therefore ( 247 Not| for which (but for one circumstance which I shall mention presently) 248 4| for habitation towns and cities, sometimes for fame and 249 11| water; but so many grains of civet will give a perfume to a 250 Not| had already formed that classification he should have omitted all 251 4| being moulded out of the clay or some earthly substance; 252 1| being truly one of those clearest burning lamps, whereof himself 253 11| sixth direction; for the clearness of a river or stream sheweth 254 1| supremacy; therefore his climbing or ascension was turned 255 26| sophistry and affectation, cloisters to fables and unprofitable 256 Not| correspond, if possible, more closely still. But I presume that 257 Not| and it will be found upon closer examination that the “Inventory” 258 9| internal impediments and clouds in the mind and spirit of 259 11| yet nevertheless they all cluster and concur; and yet the 260 17| but science by knots and clusters. That they have not collected 261 9| errors, but partly because cogitations new had need of some grossness 262 BCo| 27th degree of Capricorn: —coincidences which would have been almost 263 11| than if it were an angel coined of China gold; in like manner 264 17| and of the weak manner of collecting natural history which hath 265 4| memory monuments, pyramids, colosses, and the like. And if there 266 11| the mind of man which have coloured and corrupted all his notions 267 9| effect any conjunction or combination of wits in the first and 268 4| mechanical the first device comes shortest and time addeth 269 Not| Italian model which was then coming into fashion; and when these 270 1| true names he shall again command them) which he had in his 271 1| excellency and greatest commandment of wits and means, alluding 272 1| whereby to dispute God’s commandments and not to depend upon the 273 BCo| 1603. The period of the commencement, the duration, or the cessation 274 8| that Cicero and the rest commend as one of the best points 275 11| not in use. For the two commended rules by him set down, whereby 276 Pre| of the eighteenth chapter commends the manner of publishing 277 10| truth in nature as Caesar’s Commentaries differeth from the acts 278 BCo| Philosophy.~Line 1: see commentary~Line 2: libri dimidium est, 279 Pre| Valerius Terminus, or to his commentator, of whose annotations we 280 4| profound interpreter and commenter, to be a sharp champion 281 1| that we can in that point commit no excess; so again we find 282 26| profit and pleasure, and commonwealths to glory and vanity. That 283 8| no allusions but direct communities, the same delights of the 284 Not| small, neat, light, and compact one, formed more upon the 285 Not| This will appear clearly by comparing the descriptions of the 286 Not| titlepage he has written out a complete table of contents. In short, 287 Not| could not have done it more completely or carefully,—only that 288 7| to the several frames and compositions of their understanding they 289 11| whiteness, inequality in compound or respective order or proportion 290 4| defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger. And this is 291 16| that content or receipt to comprehend knowledge without helps 292 11| some definite means, but comprehendeth all the means and ways possible; 293 1| that the glory of God IS TO CONCEAL A THING, BUT THE GLORY OF 294 1| GLOBE, BUT OBSCURETH AND CONCEALETH THE CELESTIAL; so doth the 295 BCo| which would have been almost conclusive as to the date indicated, 296 11| white, receiving air by concoction becometh white; here you 297 11| nevertheless they all cluster and concur; and yet the direction is 298 11| effects, circumstances, concurrences, or what else you shall 299 8| observations so easy and concurring in natural philosophy, they 300 Not| extremely import the true conduct of human judgment.” These 301 4| the use of leagues and confederacies being not then known), were 302 8| diversion, succession, and conference of wits.~ 303 11| Again Aristotle’s school confesseth that there is no true knowledge 304 25| of adoration, and not in confessions and beliefs, is adverse 305 4| little beyond their own confines or territories, and the 306 11| knowledges adjacent and confining. If therefore the true end 307 11| All which I do now mention confusedly by way of derivation and 308 Not| Bacon’s later writings the confutation of them holds a very prominent 309 8| had observed the motion of congruity or situation of the parts 310 11| of choice. Besides as a conjectural direction maketh a casual 311 Pre| Hermes Stella. It may be conjectured that by the name Terminus 312 11| done without the errors and conjectures of art, or the length or 313 9| was never in effect any conjunction or combination of wits in 314 4| the honour of Alexander’s conquests saith, NIHIL ALIUD QUAM 315 1| Demigods, inventors were ever consecrated amongst the Gods themselves. 316 Not| they are here fairly and consecutively copied out. Though it be 317 8| effecting or operation, consenting or proportion, and approach 318 19| grounds men may meet in consequence or conclusion, as several 319 Not| include all the preliminary considerations preparatory to the exposition 320 1| STRENGTH, BUT THE WISE MAN CONSIDERETH WHICH WAY, signifying the 321 1| believe than to think or know, considering that in knowledge (as we 322 Not| The chapters of which it consists are both imperfect in themselves ( 323 1| inestimable, and therein conspiring with the affection of Socrates 324 Pre| work. The detached passages contain the first, sixth, and eighth 325 BCo| therefore that the writing contained a note of the positions 326 4| and not to obey, and so containeth in it a manifest defection.~ 327 Pre| and sixteenth. The epitome contains an account of the contents 328 4| ALIUD QUAM BENE AUSUS VANA CONTEMNERE: in which sort of things 329 19| labyrinth. That the two contemplative ways have some resemblance 330 11| will omit. Neither do I contend but that this motion which 331 1| God, there is no danger in contending or advancing towards a similitude 332 16| is not a vessel of that content or receipt to comprehend 333 18| a style of pugnacity and contention, some of satire and reprehension, 334 11| it is not all position or contexture of unequal bodies that will 335 1| addition to the ancient continent than there remaineth at 336 9| lastly how in the descent and continuance of wits and labours the 337 1| his ways) doth infallibly continue and observe; that is the 338 7| subtilty and the spirit of contradiction, and the other with a stile 339 12| inductions without instances contradictory; and the report of the senses; 340 26| which have not some point of contrariety towards true knowledge. 341 4| many wits and industries contributed in one: In the latter many 342 4| there could neither be that contribution of wits one to help another, 343 9| than I do. For they mean a contriving of directions and precepts 344 10| will be as fit to check and control the vain and void assignations 345 9| trim up only or order with conveniency the grounds whereof he is 346 Not| upon the whole, be the more convenient. There can he little doubt 347 11| are precepted to be made convertible, and which the latter men 348 18| easy as is conceived to convey the conceit of one man’s 349 1| for language is but the conveyance of knowledge,) ALL WERE 350 11| motion which successively is conveyed to the eye) and with the 351 8| therefore the opinion of Copernicus in astronomy, which astronomy 352 Not| fairly and consecutively copied out. Though it be a collection 353 BCo| writer (who may have been copying a kind of notation with 354 BCo| written lightly in the upper corner at the left, and is no doubt 355 Not| have inserted a particular correction, but meant to rewrite the 356 BCo| containing the symbols is written corresponds with that in the body of 357 16| sincere, but of an ill and corrupt tincture. Of the inherent 358 11| which have coloured and corrupted all his notions and impressions.~ 359 4| furthest and time leeseth and corrupteth. Painting, artillery, sailing, 360 9| error saith, ERRARE FECIT COS IN INVIO ET NON IN VIA. 361 8| their philosophy as the Cosmographers do their descriptions by 362 8| and affairs, yet hath one council of State or last resort, 363 8| though he hath particular councils for several countries and 364 8| and had called them to counsel when they made their principles 365 1| satisfaction is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure and 366 9| curse of barrenness, and is courtesanlike, for pleasure, and not for 367 9| operation. For as in the courts and services of princes 368 18| delivery of knowledge for the covering and palliating of ignorance, 369 11| proportion towards God the creator, saith, THAT ALL THE NATIONS 370 4| subject, as it is in the crossness and indisposition of the 371 11| white at a distance, and crystalline glasses deliver the face 372 11| produced in rainbows, diamonds, crystals, and the like; that white 373 1| two prosecutions are ever culpable of much perturbation and 374 18| then for a grace, and in cunning to win the more credit in 375 1| still reserve within his own curtain, yet many and noble are 376 Not| hand full of large sweeping curves and with letters imperfectly 377 11| partiality, as well as of custom and familiarity. The reflexion 378 4| particulars for the correcting of customary conceits.~And as there could 379 19| several lines or circles that cut in some one point. That 380 4| so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and 381 8| man should be thought to dally, if he did note how the 382 1| goodness of God, there is no danger in contending or advancing 383 4| that tree which is never dangerous, but where it is to the 384 1| or will of God, he shall dangerously abuse himself. It is true 385 1| place in the prophecy of Daniel where speaking of the latter 386 1| discover natural things, but darken and shut up divine. And 387 BCo| and asked him if from such data he could determine the month 388 BCo| would have involved all his dates in confusion. I should think 389 4| of knowledge but as the dawning or break of day. For at 390 1| force why religion should dearly protect all increase of 391 9| I should be prevented by death to propound and reveal this 392 8| an infinite quantity of debate touching Good and the highest 393 11| truth because it preventeth deceit, the other the rule of prudence 394 1| confuted), or else of a deceitful simplicity. For if they 395 18| of many vain persons and deceivers disgraced, of publishing 396 1| s works, and adored the deceiving and deformed imagery which 397 BCo| during the year ending 22nd December, 1603. The period of the 398 Not| deference to Mr. Ellis’s decided opinion that it was written 399 12| CAP. 12.~That in deciding and determining of the truth 400 4| therefore Titus Livius in his declamatory digression wherein he doth 401 1| AND THE UNJUST, doth well declare, that we can in that point 402 1| THE BEGINNING TO THE END: declaring not obscurely that God hath 403 1| discern those ordinances and decrees which throughout all these 404 1| knowledge such as is not dedicated to goodness or love, for 405 Not| though a conclusion not deducible from the Inventory, is nevertheless 406 Not| may be the more awake in deducing direction of works from 407 25| seek reason of reason more deeply. And that such was the religion 408 4| containeth in it a manifest defection.~ 409 9| succession hath been rather to defend and to adorn than to add; 410 4| be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder 411 Not| place this fragment here in deference to Mr. Ellis’s decided opinion 412 Not| note only omissions and deficiencies, and not to make any redargutions 413 11| THAT CAN TRULY DIVIDE AND DEFINE; which cannot be but by 414 18| ignorance with credit, in defining all those effects which 415 22| all Anticipation is but a deflexion or declination by accident.~ 416 1| adored the deceiving and deformed imagery which the unequal 417 1| though all inferior and degenerate: but it is a restitution 418 4| vigour at first, by time degenerated and imbased. In the former 419 1| revolutions and periods may be delayed. The other that the consent 420 9| consist not in any plausible, delectable, reverend, or admired discourse, 421 9| DE PARTIBUS VITAE QUISQUE DELIBERAT, DE SUMMA NEMO. A course 422 9| themselves to account and deliberation touching the means and second 423 1| the divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the 424 8| direct communities, the same delights of the mind being to be 425 4| The error is both in the deliverer and in the receiver. He 426 18| devices put in practice in the delivery of knowledge for the covering 427 11| confuted by the other sects, demanding whether every kind of sensible 428 1| the titles of Worthies or Demigods, inventors were ever consecrated 429 7| state of knowledge is ever a DEMOCRATIE, and that prevaileth which 430 9| than words, and directly to demonstrate the point which we are now 431 19| grave sort of wits have depended upon authors and traditions, 432 8| sciences distinguished have a dependence upon universal knowledge 433 4| many men’s wits spent to deprave the wit of one.~The error 434 4| digression wherein he doth depress and extenuate the honour 435 1| jealous that every reach and depth of knowledge wherewith their 436 11| shape, was rather justly derided than seriously confuted 437 Not| These false appearances he describes, though he does not give 438 11| prophets with great elegancy describing how all creatures carry 439 4| there be great wastes and deserts there: so I am not apt to 440 Not| one only, of the fiftyone Desiderata set down at the end of the 441 12| found out discovereth and designeth new particulars. That the 442 8| natural division of all his desires, being either of sense of 443 19| principle whereof hath been despair or diffidence, and the strong 444 Not| argument written in Latin and destined {for} to be {traditionary} 445 8| to itself, which by that destitution became but a barren and 446 11| may cause a precise and determinate passion of the eye; a matter 447 Pre| ascertain the motive which determined Bacon to give to the supposed 448 12| 12.~That in deciding and determining of the truth of knowledge, 449 4| arts mechanical the first device comes shortest and time 450 17| thereof as many ways as can be devised; which course amounteth 451 25| foundations,) or that cherisheth devotion upon simplicity and ignorance, 452 1| cause doth make men more devoutly to depend upon the providence 453 11| never produced in rainbows, diamonds, crystals, and the like; 454 BCo| of which 30,578 persons died in London, during the year 455 BCo| the next group may mean DIES MERCURII (Wednesday) 26TH 456 11| in colour which otherwise differ most, as salt and sugar, 457 11| be but by true forms and differences. Wherein I join hands with 458 10| as Caesar’s Commentaries differeth from the acts of King Arthur 459 18| directions to practice, and digesting it into method, whereby 460 1| indeed make doubt that this digging further and further into 461 1| mind, if man will open and dilate the powers of his understanding 462 11| sight must have a further dimension and quantity than those 463 BCo| commentary~Line 2: libri dimidium est, pagina 34~Line 3: pagellarum 464 26| wholly to contemplations, do disable and hinder the mind more.~ 465 Not| point on which I venture to disagree with Mr. Ellis I have stated 466 Not| transcript, and the difficulty disappears. Nothing would be easier 467 1| same author doth notably disavow both power and knowledge 468 4| weakness, and sloth maketh the disciple not to know his strength.~ 469 18| positive affirmation, without disclosing the true motives and proofs 470 9| readiness of practice, which I discommend not, so it be not occasion 471 8| their long and wandering discourses of pleasure, virtue, duty, 472 9| did fall on glossing and discoursing of the causes; which is 473 18| interpretation. That the discretion anciently observed, though 474 17| with those advantages and discretions in the entry and sorting 475 1| joined with the working and discursion of the spirits in the brain: 476 Not| that was not the place to discuss them, and therefore in the 477 25| anticipation, from examining or discussing of the mysteries and principles 478 22| of one kind, which is the disdain of dwelling and being conversant 479 18| vain persons and deceivers disgraced, of publishing part, and 480 8| arts and sciences have been disincorporated from general knowledge, 481 8| of common reason, help of disputation, and advantages of cavillation, 482 1| good and evil, whereby to dispute God’s commandments and not 483 11| stream sheweth white at a distance, and crystalline glasses 484 8| joined ever pleasure with distaste. SIR, (saith a man of art 485 1| accepted of with caution and distinction; being now to open a fountain, 486 8| other two; for sciences distinguished have a dependence upon universal 487 9| no better are the endless distorted questions, which ever have 488 9| affectation of professors and the distraction of such as were no professors; 489 19| there is less reason of distrust in the course of interpretation 490 4| hath generally aliened and diverted wits and labours from that 491 11| AS A GOD, THAT CAN TRULY DIVIDE AND DEFINE; which cannot 492 8| axioms, they would never have divided their philosophy as the 493 8| matter and words, Socrates divorced them and withdrew philosophy 494 BCo| and is no doubt merely a docket inserted afterwards when 495 1| was not needy of power or dominion; but again, being a spirit 496 8| Spain in regard of his great dominions useth in state; who though 497 17| not had that greater and double strength and patience of 498 Not| between brackets have a line drawn through them. For an exact 499 7| blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is sad and weighty. 500 BCo| finger before the ink was dry.) Suspecting therefore that