This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, 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)... Of the Advancement of Learning - Page 20by Francis Bacon - 1915 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degene.ate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...matter, or goodness of quality^ This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen ; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
| 1829 - 592 pages
...matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...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... | |
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