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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 Rudiments of Criticism

Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - 1916 - 204 pages
...common day ? I shall make no apology for quoting again, as the first principle of education, that 'it is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not things', for I am convinced that a great deal of our teaching in history, geography, mathematics, even...
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The Oxford Stamp, and Other Essays: Articles from the Educational Creed of ...

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 240 pages
...^Our study of English has labored too much under that fallacy; it has fallen into what Bacon calls "the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH IN ENGINEERING SCHOOLS1 THE problem of English in engineering schools is essentially...
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The Quarterly Journal of Speech Education: The Official Organ of ..., Volume 13

1927 - 544 pages
...Subject in the United States has shown how this type of instruction has fallen into what Bacon calls ' ' the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter"; and a volume could be filled with published criticisms of the instruction in composition which has...
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book IV. England. book V. Philosophy and science

Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 460 pages
...call humanists for their over study and copying of the ancient eloquence, and says rather vaguely: " In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, that men study words and not...
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Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700

John William Adamson - 1921 - 320 pages
...legendo Cicerone': and the echo answered in Greek, *O1/e, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolpjen to be utterly despised as barbarous. In sum, the whole...those times was rather towards copia, than weight." The separation in kind between the work of the schoolroom and the intellectual life of grown men and...
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Selections

Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 pages
...despised as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore [is] the first distemper...have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have...
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The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one

Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pages
...and gone too far;" Read the capitalised acrostic letters: BACON. Page 284 — "the echo answered .... the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised...INClination And Bent OF those times was rather towards copie" Read the capitalised acrostic letters: I, F. BACON. Page 285-286— "laborious webs of learning...
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Two Views of Education: With Other Papers Chiefly on the Study of Literature

Lane Cooper - 1922 - 344 pages
...details of outer form, rather than the substance of what he reads. ' Here, therefore, ' as Bacon says, 'is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.'1 Is it not true that, if you take care of the teacher of English, his pupil will be taken...
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A Study of the Treatment of Speech Composition by English Writers from Cox ...

James Fred McGrew - 1926 - 588 pages
...Demosthenes, allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning.... «In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here, therefore, QisJ the first distemper of learning, when men study words and...
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Bacon Selections

Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore fis] the first distemper of learning, when men study words...have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have...
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