 | 1860 - 514 דפים
...schoolmen, whohaving 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...did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agita. tion of wits, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 דפים
...history 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 דפים
...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...of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out uuto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 דפים
...examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objecauthors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons...webs of learning which are extant in their books. 3 For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 312 דפים
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still further : " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 דפים
...man happens to difier, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still further: "Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable... | |
 | 1866 - 904 דפים
...of nature and times, they, with infinite agitation of art, 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... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 דפים
...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...did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite 21 agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books.... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1869 - 216 דפים
...comments on the comments. The criticism of Lord Bacon has but too much truth in it, that these men, " knowing little history, " either of nature or time, did, out of no great quan" tity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out " laborious cobwebs of learning, admirable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 דפים
...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... | |
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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... 
