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His Advancement of Learning is his greatest work ; and next to that , I like the Essays ; for the Novum Organum is more laboured and less effectual than it might be . I shall give a few instances from the first of these chiefly ...
His Advancement of Learning is his greatest work ; and next to that , I like the Essays ; for the Novum Organum is more laboured and less effectual than it might be . I shall give a few instances from the first of these chiefly ...
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This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school - men , 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 ...
This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school - men , 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 ...
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Lord Bacon in this part declares , that it is not his purpose to enter into a laudative of learning or to make a Hymn to the Muses , ' yet he has gone near to do this in the following observations on the dignity of knowledge .
Lord Bacon in this part declares , that it is not his purpose to enter into a laudative of learning or to make a Hymn to the Muses , ' yet he has gone near to do this in the following observations on the dignity of knowledge .
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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