Of the Proficience and Advancement of LearningWilliam Pickering, 1840 - 350 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iv
... speaking of the error of common minds retiring from active life , he says , " Pythagoras , being asked what he was , answered , that if Hiero were ever at the Olympic games , he knew the manner , that some came as merchants to utter ...
... speaking of the error of common minds retiring from active life , he says , " Pythagoras , being asked what he was , answered , that if Hiero were ever at the Olympic games , he knew the manner , that some came as merchants to utter ...
الصفحة v
... speaking of the resemblance in the different parts of nature , and calling upon his readers to observe that truths are general , he says , " Is not the delight of the quaver- “ Is ing upon a stop in music the same with the playing of ...
... speaking of the resemblance in the different parts of nature , and calling upon his readers to observe that truths are general , he says , " Is not the delight of the quaver- “ Is ing upon a stop in music the same with the playing of ...
الصفحة vii
... speak truly , and counsel them for the best . " He must have forgotten his own doctrine , that books ought to have no patrons but truth and rea- son , and he must also have forgotten his own ner- vous and beautiful admonition , that ...
... speak truly , and counsel them for the best . " He must have forgotten his own doctrine , that books ought to have no patrons but truth and rea- son , and he must also have forgotten his own ner- vous and beautiful admonition , that ...
الصفحة xi
... speaking of the power of knowledge to repress the inconveniences which arise from man to man , he says , " In Orpheus's theatre all beasts and birds assembled , and , for- getting their several appetites , some of prey , some of game ...
... speaking of the power of knowledge to repress the inconveniences which arise from man to man , he says , " In Orpheus's theatre all beasts and birds assembled , and , for- getting their several appetites , some of prey , some of game ...
الصفحة 9
... speak- ing of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness , then is the continent greater than the content ...
... speak- ing of the two principal senses of inquisition , the eye and the ear , affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing , nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness , then is the continent greater than the content ...
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