The Portable Elizabethan ReaderHiram Collins Haydn Viking Press, 1946 - 688 pages Represents both the quality and flavour of Elizabethan literature, and the temper of the life and thought that bred it. |
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Page 17
... Learning , Bacon lists the " errors and vanities " to which learning is susceptible . With merciless directness , here as in his Novum Organum , he assails the obscurantists , the pedants , the faddists and the servile traditionalists ...
... Learning , Bacon lists the " errors and vanities " to which learning is susceptible . With merciless directness , here as in his Novum Organum , he assails the obscurantists , the pedants , the faddists and the servile traditionalists ...
Page 189
... learning did chiefly reign amongst the Schoolmen : who having sharp and strong wits , and abundance of leisure , and small variety of reading , but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors ( chiefly Aristotle their dicta ...
... learning did chiefly reign amongst the Schoolmen : who having sharp and strong wits , and abundance of leisure , and small variety of reading , but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors ( chiefly Aristotle their dicta ...
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... learning . For the third vice or disease of learning , which con- cerneth deceit or untruth , it is of all the rest the foulest ; as that which doth destroy the essential form of knowl- edge , which is nothing but a representation of ...
... learning . For the third vice or disease of learning , which con- cerneth deceit or untruth , it is of all the rest the foulest ; as that which doth destroy the essential form of knowl- edge , which is nothing but a representation of ...
Contents
On Looking Through a Tele | 29 |
New Horizons | 31 |
PROLOGUE | 39 |
Copyright | |
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