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Advancement of Learning already amongst Aphorism Apophthegms appears Aristotle arts atheism Augm Augmentis authority axioms Bacon's conception Baconian Baconian method called chapter character collection common connexion crucial instance discovery divine division doctrine effect Electrology Ellis and Spedding's English Essays Essex Ethics example experiments facts faculties Final Causes Francis Bacon given nature Gray's Inn heat History of Henry Hobbes human idea Idola Idola Fori imagination important Inductive Logic influence inquiry Instantiĉ Instauration intellectual interest kind king knowledge letters Lord man's Mathematics matter Metaphysic Mill's Method mind moral Natural Philosophy Natural Theology never Novum Organum object observation opinion passage perhaps physical Poesy present principles probably published quĉ question Rawley reader reason reformer of science regarded religion Roger Bacon Sapientia Veterum says scientific method Second Book seems sense simple natures speak speculation Spedding substance Theology theory things tion true truth volume words
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Page 181 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion...
Page 41 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Page 187 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely...
Page 42 - Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour ; but that which is specially to be noted is that those which, as Cicero says of Pompey, are sui amantes sine rivali...
Page 184 - Concerning the means of procuring unity, men must beware, that, in the procuring or muniting* of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity and of human society. There be two swords amongst Christians, the spiritual and the temporal, and both have their due office and place in the maintenance of religion...
Page 102 - The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Page 41 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree, that is wounded itself when it gives the balm.
Page 108 - ... the received and inveterate opinion that the inquisition of man is not competent to find out essential Forms or true differences...
Page 108 - But it is manifest, that Plato, in his opinion of ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry, " That forms were the true object of knowledge ;" but lost the real fruit of his opinion, by considering of forms as absolutely abstracted from matter, and not confined and determined by matter; and so turning his opinion upon theology, wherewith all his natural philosophy it infected.
Page 104 - It may also be asked (in the way of doubt rather than objection) whether I speak of natural philosophy only, or whether I mean that the other sciences, logic, ethics, and politics, should be carried on by this method. Now I certainly mean what I have said to be understood of them all...