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| Keywords: FamHis095.png Roger Bacon's library in flames What hath all my knowledge of natures secrets gained me Onely this the losse of a better knowledge the losse of divine studies which makes the immortall part of man his soule blessed I have found that my knowledge has beene a heavy burden and has kept downe my good thoughts but I will remove the cause which are these bookes which I doe purpose here before you all to burne They all intreated him to spare the bookes because in them there were those things that after-ages might receive great benefit by He would not hearken unto them but threw them all in the fire and in that flame burnt the greatest learning in the world p 94 1904 https //archive org/details/famoushistoirieo00thom Early English Prose Romances III Fryer Bacon Edinburgh Otto Schulz Co https //archive org/stream/famoushistoirieo00thom page/94/mode/2up p 95 a reprinting of William Thoms's 1828 edition of an English prose romance available in manuscript by 1555 and first printed in 1627 Anonymous William Thoms editor other versions PD-1996 PD-1923 PD-EU-no author disclosure PD-retouched-user Harold Nelson Books in art Fire in art Book burning in art The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
