This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the Schoolmen : who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator... The Advancement of Learning, Book I - Page 31by Francis Bacon - 1904 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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 - 1834 - 784 pages
...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,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."(a)... | |
| 1829 - 592 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small 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... | |
| 1832 - 698 pages
...strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and little variety of reading, but their wits being shot nji in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their perawa were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing link history either of nature... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...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,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst " the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and " abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading;...and knowing little history, " either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us... | |
| William Gray - 1835 - 124 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading,...colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
| 1837 - 1068 pages
...efforts which can be made to bind its powers. For they, as Bacon says, had " sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading...and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto... | |
| 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... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 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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