Let us rather, according to the Scriptures, look unto that part of the race which is before us than look back to that which is already attained. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are... American Annals of Education - Page 2081829Full view - About this book
| Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - Learned institutions and societies - 1928 - 330 pages
...common stock." "* Bacon, Of the Advancement of Learning: "Among so many colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large." Bacon, Novum organum, Book I, Aph. LXXX : "Natural philosophy even among those who have attended to... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...look unto that part of the race which is before us than look back to that which is already attained. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large.... | |
| Charles R. Figley - History - 1978 - 364 pages
...connotations of specialization and application take hold that as early as 1605 Francis Bacon could complain: "Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in...all dedicated to professions, and none left free to Art and Sciences at large" (Lifton, 1973a). Thus the poles of meaning around the image of profession... | |
| Perez Zagorin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 318 pages
...the shortcomings and need for reform in colleges and universities. All of them, he commented, were "dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large," with the result that they contributed little to the progress of "fundamental knowledges." Lecturers... | |
| Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...has been passed. First, therefore, among so many noble foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions and none left free to the study of arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should be referred to use and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...look unto that part of the race which is before us than look back to that which is already attained. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange0 that they are all dedicated to professions,0 and none left free to arts and sciences at... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...of writers and inquirers concerning any parts of learning not sufficiently laboured and prosecuted. First, therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...and the love of excellence, as a motive for acquiring knowledge, is fully explained. a Bacon says, profession*), and none left free to arts and sciences at large. And this I take to bo a great cause,... | |
| 408 pages
...Divine and Human, Book n , brings a heavy indictment against the Universities of his time. He found it strange "that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedicating of foundations and dotations to professory learning... | |
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