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Ventosity

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Ven`tos´i`ty
n.1.Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride.
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By the 'father of modern science' Ruskin means Francis Bacon, who makes this point in The Advancement of Learning (1605): 'the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and some effects of that venom, which is ventosity or swelling' (The Works of Francis Bacon, ed.
'Who wants authority?' Ruskin as a dissenter by Birch, Dinah / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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