 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,...  American Annals of Education - Page 1381829Full view - About this book
 | George Burton Adams - Civilization, Medieval - 1883 - 152 pages
...Learning " : " This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen, who—having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...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... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...subsequently dwelt upon with sharp criticism, 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 up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...many substances in nature which arc solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...so questions and altercations. Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of...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... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - Evolution - 1885 - 290 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion." — Advancement of Learning. "... The Schoolmen who, having sharp and strong wits, and...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...(as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spmt, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality....reign amongst The schoolmen : who having sharp and I sttong_wjts,-aruL abundance of leisure, and small variety ' , but their wits being shut up in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate...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... | |
 | Miss I. Frith - Authors, Italian - 1887 - 426 pages
...of Natureand theobservations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own conceits . . . This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign...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... | |
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