 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
 | George Burton Adams - Civilization, Medieval - 1914 - 478 pages
...knowing little history, either of nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and inGnite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious...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... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - History, Modern - 1918 - 842 pages
...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, whether of nature or time, — did, out of no great quantity...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... | |
 | China - 1921 - 516 pages
...either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of spirit, 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 worketh... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Psychology - 1921 - 274 pages
...the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time [they], did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books." Our civilization and the human mind, critical and uncritical, as we now find it in our western world,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Civilization - 1921 - 258 pages
...the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time [they], did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books." Our civilization and the human mind, critical and uncritical, as we now find it in our western world,... | |
 | Walter Arensberg - Acrostics - 1922 - 314 pages
...times was rather towards copie" Read the capitalised acrostic letters: I, F. BACON. Page 285-286— "laborious webs of learning which are extant in their...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... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1926 - 680 pages
...of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen [that is, the medieval professors] ; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of...learning which are extant in their books. For the wit of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures [that is, creations] of... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - Social Science - 1926 - 550 pages
...in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and having little history, either of nature or of lime — 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... | |
 | Edward Hartman Reisner - Education - 1927 - 540 pages
..."Avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." I Timothy, vi. 20. and colleges, and knowing little history, either of...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... | |
 | Joseph Mayer - Progress - 1927 - 540 pages
...the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or of time, they did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books. On the constructive side, his facile pen described in many ways how scientific endeavor should be organized.... | |
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