 Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 35by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. Another error induced by the former is a distrust... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Literary Collections - 1993 - 348 pages
...when, in The Advancement of Learning, he put it so: "And to speak truly, 'Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.' These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient 'ordine retrogrado,' by a computation backward from ourselves."). And only now do I rediscover, what I must... | |
 | Giuseppe Mazzotta - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 294 pages
...discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. (Vol. Ill, pp. 290-91) The reversal or metalepsis... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, "the ancient generation is the youth of the world." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient by a computation backward from ourselves. Another error, induced by the former, is a distrust that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 532 pages
...i, says ancient ought to be used in regard to time: 'And to speak truly, AntiquUas saculi, juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.' So, too, Webster of Clitheroe, in his Academiarum... | |
 | Sheldon S. Wolin - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 664 pages
...along with the rights that belonged to each equally as part of his or her primary endowments.15 VI These times are the ancient times, when the world...ancient, and not those which we account ancient, ordine retrogrado, by a computation backwards from ourselves. Francis Bacon16 The new ways of theorizing power... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...is well taken,0 then to make progression. And to speak truly, 'Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi'.0 These times are the ancient times, when the world...ancient, and not those which we account ancient 'ordine retrogrado', by a computation backward from ourselves. Another error, induced by the former, is a distrust... | |
 | William R. Shea - History - 2003 - 374 pages
...speak true, Antiquitas saeculi , juventus mundi (What we call antiquity is the youth of the world). These times are the ancient times, when the world...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, hy a computation backward from ourselves" (Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning,... | |
 | Hans Kohn - Political Science - 1967 - 794 pages
...discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, 'Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.' These times are the ancient times, when the...ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves." 49 This confidence in the future and in the... | |
 | Marcelo Dascal, Hanliang Zhang - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 336 pages
...must deface. Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi, 'what we call antiquity is the youth of the world'. These times are the ancient times, when the world...retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves (Bacon 1974: 32, 33). Arthur Johnston glosses this as follows: The idea that 'the present time is the... | |
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