 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 Seiten
...chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | William Russell - 1829 - 582 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man % if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | 1829 - 596 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 Seiten
...up in the " cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, " either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and...of wit, spin out unto us those " laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. " For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, "... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 118 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 Seiten
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 Seiten
...were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 Seiten
...chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time,...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which... | |
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... 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) as their persons were... 
