...former glories of his vocabulary, as a hindrance both to philosophy and truth. " It is," he says, " the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter. ... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words...

...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 3o Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning,...represented an example of late times, yet it hath 1 Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone. 2 Asine. been and will be, to a greater or less extent?...

...echo : / have ^ wasted ten years in reading Cicero; 1 and the echo answered in Greek: 'One,' Thou ass? Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 30 Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and...

...legenda 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...

...Sturm, and in the almost deification of Demosthenes by Car of Cambridge*. All these are examples of the ' first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter '•. In the age of the Reformation, he points out that ' it was ordained by the Divine Providence,...

...i 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...

...varying and illustrating of their works with tropes and figures than after the weight of matter. . . . Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning when men study words, not matter.' The influence of Cicero is most evident in the long line of English philosophers during...

...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...

...THE TREATMENT OF THE FACTS OF LITERARY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY . . . .138 INDEX . . . . . , . . . .145 Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter. BACON, Of the Advancement of learning. NEWMAN'S IDEA OF LIBERAL KNOWLEDGE. MOST undergraduates, in...

...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...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather toward copie than weight."1 Bacon closes his survey with the generation which immediately preceded...