 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...ILLUSTRATIONS. " This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits and abundance of leisure and...variety of reading ; but their wits being shut up m the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle, their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 204 pages
...Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who knowing little history, either of nature or time,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 202 pages
...says : " Amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and who knowing little history, either of nature... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 204 pages
...of Aristotle, but was convinced of their inadequacy. Writing of this period he says: " Amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1894 - 760 pages
...reigu among the schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits, and abnndance of leisure, and email variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few anthors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut op in the cells of monasteries... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 376 pages
...Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who, knowing little history, either of nature or time,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.'... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 344 pages
...thinking must always be the result upon adjustment, and this criterion is largely lacking in formal logic. Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading,...either of nature or time — did, out of no great 25 quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but itheir wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly I JAristotle their dictator1) as their persons were shut up in | the cells of monasteries and colleges,... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 550 pages
...14. As an instance of (he 'contentious' type of learning, Bacon selects the schoolmen, ' who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)..., and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite... | |
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This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the Schoolmen : who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator... 
