LEARNING. XXVI.
Pro.
Jf there were Books written of the smallest matters; there would hardly be any use of ex∣perience.
Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.
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- Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.
- Author
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Publication
- Oxford :: printed by Leon Lichfield printer to the University, for Robert Young and Edward Forrest,
- 1640.
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- Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800.
- Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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"Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A72146.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Page 313
Reading is a converse with the wise; Action for the most part a commerce with fooles.
Those sciences are not to be reputed altogether unprofita∣ble, that are of no use; if they sharpen the wits, and marshall our conceptions.
Page 312
Contra-
Jn Schooles men learne to believe.
What Art did yet ever teach the seasonable use of Art?
Page 313
To be wise from Precept and from experience, are two con∣trary habits; so as he that is ac∣customed to the one, is inept for the other.
There is many times a vain use of Art, least there should be no use.
This commonly is the humor of all Schollers, that they are wont to acknowledge all they know; but not to learne what they know not.