 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1869 - 216 pages
...comments on the comments. The criticism of Lord Bacon has but too much truth in it, that these men, " knowing little history, " either of nature or time, did, out of no great quan" tity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out " laborious cobwebs of learning, admirable... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...Schoolmen: . who, havingsharp 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 484 pages
...his day, when he speaks of " men of sharp and strong wits and small variety of reading, their \vits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and who, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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 - 1876 - 504 pages
...having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their • few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as...little history, either of nature or time, did out of no greatquantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out^untb us those laborious webs of are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...schoolmen, who, having strong and sharp 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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... | |
 | 1883 - 540 pages
...strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading (but their wits being shut \ip in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their...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... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - 152 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...colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time—did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
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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... 
