 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 páginas
...received he subsequently dwelt upon with sharp criticism, referring to his masters and fellows as — " Men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,...a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 392 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...dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of the monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 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...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." — Ibid. " If a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 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...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - 290 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...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 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...quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." — Ibid. " If a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 páginas
...schoolmen : who having sharp and I sttong_wjts,-aruL abundance of leisure, and small variety ' , but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their perons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and coland knowing little history, either of nature... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1886 - 472 páginas
...curious that need not — be known unto us.' ' Their wits,' to come back to the words of Lord Bacon, ' being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly...and knowing little history either of nature or time, they did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out to us those laborious... | |
 | Miss I. Frith - 1887 - 426 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...did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitutions of wit spin out into us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books.... | |
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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... 
