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" 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 208
1829
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The RĂ´le of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

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...
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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....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 93

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1853 - 628 pages
...in the course of events, become. 'Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...sciences at large. For if men judge that learning is to be referred to action they judge well : but in this they fall into the error described in the...
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Stress Disorders Among Vietnam Veterans: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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...
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Francis Bacon

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...
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Selected Philosophical Works

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...
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The Major Works

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...
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The Squashed Philosophers

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....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

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,...
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state intervention in english education

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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