 ... 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.  Essays on English Studies - Page 98by Henry Norman Hudson - 1906 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degene.ate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate...but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate...but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid, do putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. 2. Badges of false science . . . . • • . 38 1. Novelty of terms. 2. Strictness of positions. 3.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality^ This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...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,... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...like as " many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrefy and " corrupt into worms, so is it the property of good and sound " knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, " idle, unwholesome, and, as 1 may term them, vcrmiculatc " questions, which have indeed a... | |
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