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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page vii
by Francis Bacon - 1834
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 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,...little history, either of nature or time, did out oVno great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 39

1860 - 514 pages
...schoolmen, whohaving 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,...did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agita. tion of wits, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books....
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind...
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objecauthors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. 3 For the wit and mind...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind...
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The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writings

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 312 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still further : " 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...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...man happens to difier, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still further: "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...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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,...did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite 21 agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books....
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 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...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind...
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