 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 - Logic - 1904 - 220 pages
...monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time — did, out of no great 25 quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited 39 thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | 1905 - 958 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, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 814 pages
...are, therefore, by those other egregious people [the Schoolmen] counted idiots." Bacon declared: — "This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign...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 Shakespeare - 1906 - 216 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...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... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 536 pages
...soundness of matter or goodness of quality. 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... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1908 - 444 pages
...their wit." — Divinae Institutiones, Lib. iii, sect. 24 ; Corp. Scrip. Eccl. Lat., XIX, pp. 254 sf. of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells...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... | |
 | Frederick Elmer Bolton - Education - 1910 - 810 pages
...Francis Bacon very aptly characterized:1 "This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen, who having sharp and strong wits, 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 worketh... | |
 | James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...method is illustrated by the 'degenerate learning' of the Schoolmen, ' who, having strong and sharp wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety...matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of 1 Nov. Org., Bk. i. Aph. 19. God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - History - 1912 - 302 pages
...history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wits spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning...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... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - History, Modern - 1913 - 810 pages
...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, whether of nature or time, — did, out of no great quantity...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... | |
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