 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 376 pages
...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and who, knowing little history, cither of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1886 - 506 pages
...of their monasteries ; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter and contemplates the nature of things and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Miss I. Frith - 1887 - 426 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...did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitutions of wit spin out into us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books.... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...fellows as— " Men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, 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... | |
 | 1889 - 610 pages
...just because, having ' sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...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... | |
 | 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...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—... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
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This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading f but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their... 
