 | 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 authors (chiefly Aristotle, their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...referring to his masters and fellows as— " Men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...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
...prevailed among the schoolmen just because, having ' sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...a few authors (chiefly Aristotle, their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | 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 (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut np in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | 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 (chiefly Aristotle, their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and having little history,... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 204 pages
...inadequacy. Writing of this period he says : " Amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who knowing little history,... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 344 pages
...found himself, at Cambridge, England, 'amid 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 Formal logic is not so different in principle from chess or backgammon; it has rules of its own, and... | |
 | 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 (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | 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 (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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 ; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator... 
