 | Samuel Bannister Harding - 1913 - 810 páginas
...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 i.chiefly Aristotle, their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - 1916 - 244 páginas
...Schoolmen as ' 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), . . . and knowing little history, either of nature or time (they) did, out of no great quantity of... | |
 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - 1968 - 180 páginas
...Schoolmen, who having strong and sharp wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading, but their' wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 páginas
...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)., .did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 páginas
...did chiefly reign among the schoolmen; who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading (their wits being shut...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges), and knowing little history, either of Nature or Time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 páginas
...made clear, for example, in the Advancement of Learning, where Bacon again says that The schoolmen ... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,... did out of no great quantity of matter spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are... | |
 | Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - 1988 - 339 páginas
...scholasticism that dominated the university in his day. He described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator" (quoted in Eiseley , 1973). Throughout the rest of his scholarly life he was to stress the conflict... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 páginas
...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...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 436 páginas
...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...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite... | |
 | Ernst Breisach - 1993 - 272 páginas
...possible a useless spinning of 130 "laborious webs of learning" that had resulted in scholars with "their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges." 3 Now, in the modern period, a pragmatically reshaped rationality must and would pervade all thought... | |
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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,... 
