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" Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 28
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 pages
...legendo Cicerone, [I have spent ten years in reading Cicero:] and the echo answered in Greek, one, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards eopie than weight. Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...
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Memories of Merton

John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...feather ; all portray'd the vanished soul— Doth it not hint of origin divine ? •VII. (Muratimi — " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, not matter."—Advancement of Learning. "Qns Imberbi didicere, senes perdenda fateri."—HORACE. SHAME...
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Bacon, His Writings and His Philosophy

George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...— "Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ;"* and the echo answered in Greek, "Ovf, " Asine."f Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...when men study words and not matter; whereof though 1 have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, "secundum majus et minus"...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...original has that then. ten years in reading Cicero :] and the echo answered in Greek, one, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...scoffing Echo : "Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone;" and the Echo answered in Greek, " On Asine." Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...
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The Irish ecclesiastical record, Volume 5

Irish ecclesiastical record - 1869 - 620 pages
...and art, which flourish only in a peaceful atmosphere, greatly declined. " Then," says Lord Bacon, " grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. In fine, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia than weight" "And the...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...echo answered in Greek One, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despilsed as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 3. Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, wjien men study words and...
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The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon ...

Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...Hermogenes ; then did Car and Ascham, in their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times was rather upon fulness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first...
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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...scoffing echo, Decem annos consumpsi in kgendo Cicerone ; and the echo answered in Greek One, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volumes 9-10

James Comper Gray - 1876 - 858 pages
...of Alexludria was as bad and disgraceful as that if the Countess Du Вапт under Louis XIV."— It is the first distemper of learning when men study words, and not matter." — Biicon, с Mülon. The phrase I? usually taken to describe those who set law and right at defiance...
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