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 dictator)... The Works of Francis Bacon - Página 285por Francis Bacon - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| David Irving - 1804 - 500 páginas
...and aboundance of Icasure, and small variety of reading; but their wits being shut up in the eels of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle, their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the eels of monasteries and colledges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time ; did out of... | |
| Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 páginas
..."theschoolmen having sharp and strong wits, ami abundance of leisure, but small reading either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us (hose laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...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, as...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."(a)... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 520 páginas
...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...time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infmite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 páginas
...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, as...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."... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 páginas
...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 of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us... | |
| William Gray - 1835 - 124 páginas
...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...colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
| 1837 - 1068 páginas
...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 colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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...time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infiniteagitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 páginas
...disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, 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."... | |
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