 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
 | John Churton Collins - 1901 - 396 pages
...ponder over Bacon's weighty words : " 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 - 1902 - 444 pages
...altercations' — he proceeds— ' 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 (ai I may term them) vermiculatc... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...strictness of posi- 10 tions, which of necessity doth induce oppositions, and so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are...knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, un- 15 wholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...strictness of posi- 10 tions, which of necessity doth induce oppositions, and so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are...and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a numbe/of subtle, idle, un- 15 wholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate quesj tions, which have... | |
 | 1905 - 286 pages
...set of ignorant fools or maniacs, and cites their views as an illustration ofBacon's saying that : " Like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms, so it the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1906 - 242 pages
...me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the 10 images of matter; and, except they have the life of...which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms; 15 so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 214 pages
...and the observations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reasons and conceits. As many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy...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... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 536 pages
...so forcibly. " Surely," says Bacon, " 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 subtile, idle, unwholesome, and as I may term them, vermiculate... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1908 - 444 pages
...toward natural science. Weakness Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do scholastic putrefy and corrupt into worms, so it is the property of good philosophers and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - 1910 - 178 pages
...Hector were not troubled with the tooth-ache." And Lord Bacon, in his Advancement of Learning, declares, "Surely, like as many substances in nature, which...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... | |
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