 Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...  Essays on Education, English Studies, and Shakespeare - Page 22by Henry Norman Hudson - 1884 - 69 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...Contentious Learning. 1. It is vanity of matter, useless knowledge, and is worse than vanity of words 170 As many substances in nature, which are solid, do...knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermicufate questions, which have indeed a kind... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...which of necessity doth induce oppositions, and so questions and altercations"— he proceeds — « Surely like as many substances in nature which are...into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound know. ledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as 1 may term... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 382 pages
...words of Bacon : "Surely like as many substances in nature -which are solid, and do putrify and corrupt worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify, and dissolve into a number of subtle, unwholesome, and (as I might term them) vermiculate... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...strictness of positions, which of necessity doth induce oppositions, and so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms, BO it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile,... | |
 | James Lorimer - 1857 - 334 pages
...contact with reality, it will * Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into numbers of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermicular... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...Contentious Learning. 1. It is vanity of matter, useless knowledge, and is worse than vanity of words 170 As many substances in nature, which are solid, do...knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vcrtniculale questions, which have indeed a kind... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pages
...altercations" — he proceeds — " Surely like as many substances in nature which are solid, do putreiy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...oppositions, and so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are sold do putrefy and corrupt into worms, so it is the property...knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, 19vermiculate questions, which have, indeed, a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...altercations. Surely, like as many substances""" in nature which are solid do putrify and corrupt into J* worms; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate... | |
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