 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - Страниц: 408
..."theschoolmen having sharp and strong wits, ami abundance of leisure, but small reading either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us (hose laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - Страниц: 784
...Instead of students ready at all times to acquire any sort of knowledge, he found himself " amidst men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 592
...goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...variety of reading, (but their wits being shut up in the colls of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells... | |
 | 1832 - Страниц: 698
...strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and little variety of reading, but their wits being shot nji in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their perawa were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing link history either of nature... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - Страниц: 480
...quality ! " This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst " the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and " abundance of leisure,...and knowing little history, " either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - Страниц: 124
...goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - Страниц: 120
...quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp atfd strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety...colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and in6nite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 1068
...forth in spite of all the efforts which can be made to bind its powers. For they, as Bacon says, had " sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - Страниц: 642
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still farther. " 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 - 1843 - Страниц: 394
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still farther. " 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... | |
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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... 
