...Demosthenes, and 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. 1 What concerns Bacon here is not an imbalance within literary style but the proliferation...

...an end. Now for the first time, in 1605, we get constant emphasis on the dangers of verbalism. 'Here is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter."134 Fifteen years later, in the Psychologie, vol. 1, p. 115. The relevant Latin passages are...

...weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter 5. The second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for as substance of matter is better...

...weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement ... In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight.34 This by no means devolves into a Neoscholasticism: the next stage in the argument...

...scoffing echo: "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 copiousness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words...

...scoffing echo; "Decem annos consumpsi in legende Cicerone," and the echo answered in Greek, one, Asine.43 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...

...Otras de ellas eran la inclinación a preocuparse más por las palabras que por la materia: Here... is 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 are...

...scoffing echo; 'Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone',0 and the echo answered in Greek, OVE, Asme . Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore is0 the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not...

...weight of matter, worth of subject, soundnes of argument, life of invention or depth of judgment.[. . .] In sum the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. (24) Like Montaigne, Bacon looked to the ancients not for purposes of imitation...

...Advancement of Learning, p. 140. Bacon invokes these Herculean labourers when discussing stylistic excess, 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' (ibid., p. 139). Hercules' followers exemplify those who shun stylistic affectation. 26 Sylva Sylvarum...