 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 - Page 10by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 pages
...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 - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...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) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out oVno great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, i worketh according to the stuff, and is limited I thereby ; bat if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...and sound knowledge to putrify and to dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as 1 may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed...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 - 1861 - 860 pages
...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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