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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Title: 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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Subject terms: Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800.; Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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WIFE AND CHILDREN.

Pro.

Charity to the Common∣wealth, begins at a private Fa∣mily.

Wife and Children are a kind of Discipline of Humani∣ty; but unmarried men are cru∣ell and hard-hearted.

Single life and a Childlesse state, are good for nothing but for flight.

He that procreates no Chil∣dren, sacrificeth to Death.

They that are happy in all other things, are commonly un∣fortunate in their Children: least being men they should ap∣proach too neere to a condition Divine.

Contra.

He that hath Wife and Children, hath given Hostages to Fortune.

Generation and issue are Human Acts; Creation and its works are Acts Divine.

Issue is the Eternity of Beasts; Fame, merit, and whol∣some Precepts, the eternity of Men.

Oeconomicall respects many times supplant Politicall Du∣ties.

To some natures the For∣tune of Priamus is acceptable, who surviv'd his whole Posteri∣ty.