 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...contempt ; imputing it to misunderstanding, fear, passion, or what you will. DISCREDITS OF LEARNING. HERE is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities,... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - 556 pages
...languages rule in the study of science the results are not satisfactory. "This, therefore," said Bacon, "is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Science, to be disciplinary, has its own methods. Properly pursued, they have probably no superiors... | |
 | Samuel Truesdale Livermore - 1877 - 396 pages
...innocence and simplicity." In doing the second he has hoped to shun what the same great philosopher calls " the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Therefore those who read this book simply for the ornaments of language will be disappointed. Those... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1878 - 654 pages
...force. BOTANY. The professor keeps virtually in mind the words of Lord Bacon when he says : " This therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." To get the definitions of the parts of plants, and by analysis and a comparison of the parts with an... | |
 | Connop Thirlwall - 1878 - 514 pages
...superficial, without depth, heart, or substance. And this was noted long ago by a great thinker, as " the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter." And though these different modes of unsoundness are closely related to one another — for error most... | |
 | Character - 1878 - 346 pages
...superficial, without depth, heart, or substance. And this was noted long ago by a great thinker as " the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." And though these different modes of unsoundness arc closely related to one another — for error most... | |
 | 1910 - 756 pages
...into the habit of regarding the details of outer form, rather than the substance of what he reads. " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Is it true that if you take care of the teacher of English, his pupil will be taken care of? Whatever... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...contempt; imputing it to misunderstanding, fear, passion, or what you will. DISCREDITS OF LEARNING. HERE is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...scoffing echo; " Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone:" and the echo answered in Greek 'Oue, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...those times was rather towards copia than weight. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...scoffing echo, Decent annos consumpsi in legendo 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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Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... 
