 shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in  New Elements of Geometry - Page 13by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Irving - 1804 - 500 pages
...Aristotle, their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the eels of monasteries and colledges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of E Du Pin, Bibliotheque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, tom. xiii. p. 160.— Mair is also mentioned by... | |
 | David Irving - 1810 - 468 pages
...Aristotle, their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the eels of monasteries and colledges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of B Du Pin, Bibliotheqne des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, tom. xiii. p. t6o.— Mair is also mentioned by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...dictator, as their persons were ^•hut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and i=inowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out...agita"tion of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of , which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 pages
..."theschoolmen having sharp and strong wits, ami abundance of leisure, but small reading either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us (hose laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a- few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,)...those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the... | |
 | William Gray - 1828 - 138 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictalor, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,)...those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the... | |
 | William Russell - 1829 - 582 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,)...either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity ot matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which... | |
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