 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...the strictness of positions. " Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions; when, as amongst the schoolmen, men out of no great quantity of matter, but with infinite agitation... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...strictness of positions. , " Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions; when, as amongst the schoolmen, men out of no great quantity of matter, but with infinite agitation... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...the strictness of positions. " Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiciilate questions; when, as amongst the schoolmen, men out of no great quantity of matter, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid, do putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...words ot Bacon. Surely like as mnny substances in nature which are solid, and do putriiy 3 . corrupt worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to puirilY, and dissolve into a number ol" subtle, unwholesome, and (as 1 may term tkro) vcrmiculate questions... | |
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 122 pages
...the Advancement of Learning. " Surely, like as many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms, so it is the property of good...knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...and oppositions of science, falsely so called. many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...entire, do many times putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so good and sound knowledge doth often corrupt and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...(as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which seem indeed to have a kind of motion and quickness in them, and yet are unsound and hollow, and of... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...and corrupt into worms, so," says Bacon, " it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, 'cermiculate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind of quickness, and life of spirit, but no soundness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 232 pages
...altercations"—he proceeds—" Surely like as many substances in nature which are solid, do putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermicillaie... | |
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... idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness, and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. 
