 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...sort of knowledge, he found himself " amidst men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...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,...up in the " cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, " either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...amongst the sf 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,...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 120 pages
...schoolmen, who, having sharp atfd strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...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... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...Bacon says, had " sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading ; but 4~ 6 2C | knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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,...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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,...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a 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... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...Bacon says, had " 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,...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... | |
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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,... 
