AƲdax exemplum quò Mens humana feratur,
Et Saecli vindex ingeniose tui;
Dum senio macras recoquis foeliciter artes,
Subtrahis & prisco libera colla jugo;
Quo deflenda modo veniunt tua funera? quales
Exposcunt lacrymas, quid sibi fata volunt?
An timuit Natura parens ne nuda jaceret,
Detraxit vestem dum tua dextra sacram?
Jgnoti{que} oculis rerum patuere Recessus,
Fugit & aspectum Rimula nulla tuum?
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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An veró, Antiquis olim data Sponsa Maritis,
Conjugis amplexum respuit illa novi?
An tandém damnosa piis at{que} invida caeptis,
Corripuit vitae fila (trahenda) tuae?
* 1.1Sic ultra vitreum Siculus ne pergeret orbem
Privati cecidit militis ense Senex.
Tu{que} tuos manes ideò (Francisce) tulisti,
Ne, non tentandum, perficeretur opus.
SƲnt qui defuncti vivant in marmore, & aevum
Annosis credant postibus omne suum:
Aere micant alii, aut fulvo spectantur in auro,
Et, dum se ludunt, ludere fata putant.
Altera pars hominum, numeros â prole superstes,
Cum Niobe magnos temnit iniqua Deos.
At tua caelatis haeret nec Fama Columnis,
Nec tumulo legitur, Siste viator iter:
Si qua Patrem proles referat, non corporis illa est,
Sed quasi de cerebro nata Minerva Jovis.
Primatibi virtus monumenta perennia praestat,
Altera, nec citiùs corruitura, Libri:
Tertia Nobilitas; ducant jam fata triumphos,
Quae (Francisce) tui nil nisi corpus habent.
Ʋtra{que} pars melior, Mens & bona Fama supersunt,
Non tanti ut redimas vile cadaver habes.
T. Vincent. T. C.
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* 1.1
Archim.