 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pàgines
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degene.ate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. 2. Badges of false science . . . . • • . 38 1. Novelty of terms. 2. Strictness of positions. 3.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pàgines
...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 - 592 pàgines
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...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 - 698 pàgines
...(as 1 may term tkro) vcrmiculate questions which indeed have a kind of quickness, and life cf sprx. but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of dogmatic Iraning did chiefly reign among the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pàgines
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...of spirit, but no soundness of matter, or goodness quality. This kind of chiefly reign. amongst the sf sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 120 pàgines
...putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness,...chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp atfd strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their wits being shut... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pàgines
...putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, 'cermiculate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind of quickness,...This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pàgines
...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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... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality. 
