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.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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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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THE PARABLE. XXXIV. As Faces shine in waters, so mens hearts are manifest to the wise.
THE EXPLICATION.
THe Parable distinguisheth between the Hearts of wise-men and of other Men; compareing those to waters or Glasses, which receive and represent the formes and Images of things; whereas the other are like to Earth, or rude stone, wherein nothing is reflected. And the more aptly is the mind of a wise-man compar'd to a Glasse or Mirror; because in a Glasse his own Image may be seen togither with the Images of o∣thers; which the eyes cannot doe of themselves without a Glasse. Now if the mind of a wise man be so capable, as to observe and comprehend, such an infinite diversity of Na∣tures and Customes, it remaines to be endeavour'd, that it may become no lesse various in the Application, than it is in the Representation,