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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 28
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 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...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 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...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...echo answered in Greek, one, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly Jespised as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men ;ttidy words and not...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - 1895 - 508 pages
...of ancient authors, hatred of the schoolmen, exact study of languages, and efficacy of preaching — the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter. Words may carefully and properly be fitted to the matter, but whoever seeks truth will despise those...
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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...the learning 20 of the Schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. In (i sum, the whole indication and bent of those times was rather • \ towards copia...therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when .// mejTjitudy words, and not matter ; whereof, though I have represented^ an example of late times,...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...scoffing echo; Decem 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. Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...
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Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 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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Physical and Metaphysical Works: Including the Advancement of Learning and ...

Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 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. * Neither a Portuguese or a...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 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 and Shakespeare Parallelisms

Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
.... words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter." — Cymbeline, i. 5 (1623). " Here, then, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). 187 WRITTKG FOR " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,...
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