 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,...  New Elements of Geometry - Page 15by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gray - 1835 - 120 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and in6nite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...so much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil." PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great 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."... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 pages
...disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for tbe fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...Applcton & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 434. 1860.J Notices of Books. 215 noticed by Lord B.icon of the schoolmen. "For the wit and mind of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...heing shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges),...infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those lahorious wehs of learning which are extant in their hooks. For the wit and mind of man, if it work... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...terms. ". Strictness of positions. 3. Contentious learning reigned chiefly amongst the schoolmen 170 The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creature* of God, worketh according to the stujf, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges —...little history, either of nature or time, did, out of the great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of... | |
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