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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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Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam): A Critical Review of His Life and Character ...

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...received he subsequently dwelt upon with sharp criticism, referring to his masters and fellows as— " Men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,...a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1889 - 610 pages
...quality.' And he adds that degenerate learning prevailed among the schoolmen just because, having ' sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure and...knowing little history, either of nature or time,' they spun laborious webs of learning out of no great quantity of matter. We know how Erasmus, struck...
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Civilization During the Middle Ages: Especially in Relation to Modern ...

George Burton Adams - 1910 - 476 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...Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut np in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time—...
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The Story of Human Progress: A Brief History of Civilization

Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1896 - 394 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 having little history, either of nature or of time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and...
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Civilization During the Middle Ages: Especially in Relation to Modern ...

George Burton Adams - 1922 - 478 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 Advancement of Learning, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 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,...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and 10 colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of...
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A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory Method

John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...strong wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading ; but their wits being shut up m the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle, their...dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of their monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no...
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Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform

Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 420 pages
...writings of Aristotle, but was convinced of their inadequacy. Writing of this period he says : " Amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,...chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who knowing little history, either of nature...
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Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform

Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 204 pages
...Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who knowing little history, either of nature or time,...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit." The checkered career of Bacon is extraneous to...
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Education as Adjustment: Educational Theory Viewed in the Light of ...

Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 344 pages
...powerful minds but with little substantial knowledge. He found himself, at Cambridge, England, 'amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,...being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Formal logic is not so different in principle from chess or backgammon; it has rules of its own, and...
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