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)... Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews - Página 134por Albert Barnes - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Bacon - 1720 - 576 páginas
...no great Quantity of Matter, but infinite Agitation of Wit and Spirit, fpin out unto us thofc moft laborious Webs of Learning, which are extant in their Books. For the Mind of Man, (if it work upon Matter, by contemplating the Nature of Things, and the Works of God )... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 páginas
...of nature and times ; 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, ;f it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 páginas
...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...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 of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...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...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 of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 páginas
...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...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 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 páginas
...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...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 of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 páginas
...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...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 of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 páginas
...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...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 of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut...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)... | |
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