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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.

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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 June 13, 2024.

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Page 321

DELAY. XLI.
Pro.

Fortune selleth many things to the hasty; which she gives to the slow and deliberate.

Whilest we make too much hast to surprize the beginnings and onsets of things, we claspe shadowes.

Whilest things are at a doubtfull stand, we must waigh them; when they incline we may fall a work.

It is good to commit the be∣gining of Actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes; the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands.

Contra.

Occasion turnes the handle of the Bottle first, to be recei∣ved; and after the belly.

Occasion, like Sibylla, dimi∣nisheth the commodity, but en∣hanseth the Price.

Celerity is the helmet of Pluto.

Those things which are sea∣sonably undertaken, are per∣formed with judgement; but what are put off too long, are compass'd with trouble and by ambages.

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