 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 Seiten
...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, 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... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 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... | |
 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - 1968 - 180 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,...great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spun out to us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 Seiten
...reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)., .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.' These 'cobwebs of learning' were admirable for the fineness... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 Seiten
...'those laborious webs of learning' which, according to Francis Bacon, the scholastic philosophers spun out of 'no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit'. The task of the responsible biographer is to clear away the cobwebs, and sift, as dis75 11. Anne Hathaway's... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 436 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 . . .... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 Seiten
...Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges . . . 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. (Works, 3.285) The same metaphor occurred to Edward Said... | |
 | Brian Lawn - 1993 - 194 Seiten
...goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen . . . who 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... | |
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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... 
