 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 - Seite 10von Francis Bacon - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their * You possess no sanctity. wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...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 - 1849 - 238 Seiten
...putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermicufate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind of quickness...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... | |
 | 1849 - 858 Seiten
...monasteries and colleges — and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of the great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 Seiten
...extensive to all knowledge : " Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientice." worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 Seiten
...are well portrayed by Lord Bacon, in reference to the " Schoolmen," before his time, who, he says, " shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborjous r them; and, because these cunning men aro like haberdashers...\EarfiS, it is not amiss to set forth their shop. worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 Seiten
...time, did, out of no great quantity o'f matter, and infmite agitation of Wit, fpin out unto us thofe laborious Webs of Learning, which are extant in their...which is the contemplation of the creatures of GOD, worketh according to the ftuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itfelf, as the Spider... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 Seiten
...putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermicul ate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...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 170... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 Seiten
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out uuto 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 Seiten
...in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, rlid out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation...in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it wort upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worked! according to the stuff,... | |
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