 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)...  Philosophical works - Page 10by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 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...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, vrorketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spicier... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1910 - 476 pages
...up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut np in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - Civilization - 1896 - 394 pages
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and having little history, either of nature or of time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and...learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and inind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according... | |
 | George Burton Adams - Civilization, Medieval - 1922 - 478 pages
...often quoted in this connection. He says: "This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - Renaissance - 1898 - 328 pages
...he says, in a fine passage, too long to be quoted here in full, that they, ' having strong and sharp wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of...webs of learning which are extant in their books.' ' Much has been talked about the ' intellectual torpor' of the Middle Ages, a phrase which is somewhat... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and 10 colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | George Burton Adams - Civilization, Medieval - 1894 - 760 pages
...nature or time— did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out nnto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 442 pages
...a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vcrmiculatc questions: which luivc indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculatt questions: which have indeed a kind of quickness and...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 216 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits, and =o abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited 30 thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
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