The Advancement of Learning (1605 first edition)

The eye rejoices to receive light, and is not only delighted in beholding the variety of things and the changes original: "vicissitude" of times, but is also raised to find out and discern the laws and decrees which are infallibly observed throughout all those changes. And although he [Solomon] suggests original: "insinuate" that the supreme or summary law of Nature—which he calls the work which God works from the beginning to the end—cannot be found out by man, yet that does not take away original: "derogate" from the capacity of the mind. Instead, it may be attributed to impediments such as the shortness of life, the poor coordination of efforts original: "ill conjunction of labors", the poor transmission of knowledge from hand to hand original: "tradition", and many other inconveniences to which the condition of man is subject.

For he [Solomon] establishes in another place that no part original: "parcell" of the world is denied to man’s inquiry and discovery original: "invention" when he says, The spirit of man is as the lamp of God, with which he searches the inwardness of all secrets Proverbs 20:27. If, then, such is the capacity and receptivity original: "receit" of the human mind, it is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, however large it may be, as if it might make the mind swell or exceed its own limits. No, it is purely the quality of knowledge which—whether the quantity is great or small—if it is taken without its true corrective, contains a nature of venom or malice, and produces the effects of that venom, which is pride original: "ventosity"; literally "windiness," meaning a puffed-up or hollow vanity.