Excerpt from Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning: Or the Partitions of Sciences Wherefore, not To much for the honour of this Author, (though that is intended too) as for the aid of fome anticipate Readers, not yet manu-miffed from a fertile belief to the liberty of their own judgements, (fuch, Imean, as are yet under the minority ofan im plicite faith, ) I thought good to deliver this imperfee't lill of De ponentt, which the precipitancy of this Edition, would not permit to fill up with fome other great Namer, borh of this Kingdom, and offorreign Nations. What is wanting here to the accomplilhment of this Catalogue, Time, the Parent of Truth, [hall confummate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.