| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...scoffing echo ; Decem annos consufnpsi in Icgeiich Cicerone: and the echo answered in Greek, *O«, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...'Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, tvhen men study words and not matter : whereof, though I have represented an example of late times,... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...echo ; Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone : and the echo answered in Greek, *O»i, Aslne. , Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of ' when men study words and not matter : whereof, though I have represented an example of late tinier,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...Hermogenes ; then did Car and Ascham, in their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the school-men to be utterly despised, as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times, was rather upon fulness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...years I have consumed in reading Cicero): and the echo answered in Greek, 'One, " Asine" (an ass). Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. ^Ln sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards "copia" (fluency) than weighj/... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...echo ; " Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone :" and the echo answered in Greek, "Oyf, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...learning, when men study words, and not matter) whereof L. though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...the delicate learning ; vain imaginations, vain altercations, and vain affectations. The accounts of the " first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter ; " of the second, when they follow speculations of " unprofitable subtility or curiosity ; " and of... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...learning of the schoolmen to he utterly despised as harharous. In sum, the whole inclination and hent of those times was rather towards copia than weight....represented an example of late times, yet it hath heen, and will he, " secundum majus et minus " in all time. And how is it possihle hut this should... | |
| William Roscoe - Papacy - 1846 - 554 pages
...scoffing echo, Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone ; and the echo answered in Greek, ONE, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towardscqpia than weight." " 8 Nor was the reformation of religion favourable in its consequences to... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...learning of the schoolmen to he utterly despised as harharous. In sum, the whole inclination and hent of those times was rather towards copia than weight....learning, when men study words and not matter; whereof lhough 1 have represented an example of late times, yet it hath heen, and will he, u secundum majus... | |
| William Roscoe - 1846 - 654 pages
...scoffing echo, Decem annos constimpsi in legendo Cicerone; and the echo answered in Greek, ONE, Asine. Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those tunes was rather towards copia than Aveight." " '• Of the Advancement of Learning, book ip 18, 1st... | |
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