 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...who — having sharp and strong wits, and =o 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 - 1902 - 442 pages
...school-men, 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 - 1904 - 216 pages
...who — having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...either of nature or time — did, out of no great 25 quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but itheir wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly I JAristotle their dictator1) as their persons were shut up in | the cells of monasteries and colleges,... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1905 - 814 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... | |
 | 1905 - 958 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 Shakespeare - 1906 - 216 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... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 534 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... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1908 - 444 pages
...Divinae Institutiones, Lib. iii, sect. 24 ; Corp. Scrip. Eccl. Lat., XIX, pp. 254 sf. 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 Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 540 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 (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)..., and knowing little history, either of nature 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... 
