 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
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion." — Advancement of Learning. "... The Schoolmen who, having sharp and strong wits, and...webs of learning which are extant in their books." — Ibid. " If a man meditate much upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 Seiten
...little history, either of nature or •did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite ___agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning...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 - 1887 - 882 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 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, vrorketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spicier... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1910 - 476 Seiten
...up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut np in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing...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... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1896 - 394 Seiten
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and having little history, either of nature or of time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and...learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and inind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1922 - 478 Seiten
...often quoted in this connection. He says: "This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen, who — having sharp and strong wits,...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... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - 1898 - 328 Seiten
...he says, in a fine passage, too long to be quoted here in full, that they, ' having strong and sharp wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of...webs of learning which are extant in their books.' ' Much has been talked about the ' intellectual torpor' of the Middle Ages, a phrase which is somewhat... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 Seiten
...chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and 10 colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature...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... | |
 | 1937 - 824 Seiten
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