| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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