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" ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. "
Christian Ethics; Or, Moral Philosophy on the Principles of Divine Revelation - Page 375
by Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 446 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degene.ate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. 2. Badges of false science . . . . • • . 38 1. Novelty of terms. 2. Strictness of positions. 3....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...Instead of students ready at all times to acquire any sort of knowledge, he found himself " amidst men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 4

1829 - 592 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...variety of reading, (but their wits being shut up in the colls of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1832 - 698 pages
...(as 1 may term tkro) vcrmiculate questions which indeed have a kind of quickness, and life cf sprx. but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of dogmatic Iraning did chiefly reign among the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...of spirit, but no soundness of matter, or goodness quality. This kind of chiefly reign. amongst the sf sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...Instead of students ready at all times to acquire any sort of knowledge, he found himself " amidst men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their...
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An Historical Sketch of the Origin of English Prose Literature, and of Its ...

William Gray - 1835 - 120 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp atfd strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their wits being shut...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 1

1841 - 500 pages
...putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, 'cermiculate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind of quickness,...This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...
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The Dial, Volume 2

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable...
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