 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
 | 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,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 Seiten
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out into 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 worketh... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 Seiten
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out into those laborious webs of learning which are extant...matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures yof God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 Seiten
...BO 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 Seiten
...indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality ./r 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 Seiten
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, either of nature or tune; did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 Seiten
...solid, do putreiy 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 Seiten
...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... | |
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