 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1900 - 202 sidor
...says : " Amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons are shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and who knowing little history, either of nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 sidor
...of nature and times; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 sidor
...of nature and times ; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the h\iman mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1894 - 760 sidor
...schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits, and abnndance of leisure, and email variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few anthors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut op in the cells of monasteries... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 sidor
...of nature and times; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 376 sidor
...Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who, 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.'... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 344 sidor
...thinking must always be the result upon adjustment, and this criterion is largely lacking in formal logic. Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and who, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 sidor
...schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few...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... | |
 | George Worley - 1904 - 294 sidor
...of nature and times ; they, with infinite agitation and wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 sidor
...having sharp and strong wits, and 20 abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but itheir wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly I JAristotle their dictator1) as their persons were shut up in | the cells of monasteries and colleges,... | |
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This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading f but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their... 
