 | William Roscoe - 1885 - 574 pages
...scoffing echo, Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ; and the echo answered in Greek, ilNE, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...despised as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bentof those times was rather towardscopia than weight." "8 Nor was the reformation of religion favourable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...Cicerone ; and the echo answered in Greek One, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen 'jto be utterly despised as barbarous. In sum, the whole...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards ' copie than weight. fit 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, ,77 ([when jnen_stHdj.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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 copie than weight. Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...Aleanccment of LaarniaI, Book II. The souls of the living are the beauty of the world.—Essay, Pan. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter.—Adeancement of Learning, Book I. For if that great Work-master had been of a human disposition,... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...of his age; his system could only rise upon the overthrow of that of Aristotle. He protested against The first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.* Again he says: In the universities of Europe men learn nothing bat to believe; first to believe that... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pages
...of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet, notwithstanding Sidney's discernment of this weighty truth, and the progress in simplicity made... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 pages
...of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Yet, notwithstanding Sidney's discernment of this weighty truth, and the progress in simplicity made... | |
 | 1892 - 828 pages
...perseverance. — Steele. No fountain is so small that Heaven may not be imaged in its bosom. — Hawthorne. IT is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter. — Bacon. WITHOUT the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be ? — Mdme.... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...scoffing echo, ' Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone,' and the echo answered in Greek ' Ove Asine.' Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. (I) " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning — when men study words, and not matter."... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...scoffing echo, ' Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone' and the echo answered in Greek ' Ove Asine.' Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. (I) " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning — when men study words, and not matter."... | |
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