 | 1857 - 628 pàgines
...philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for dis' putations and contentions, but barren of the production of ' works for the benefit of the life of man : in which mind he ' continued to his dying day.' After a time spent in travel, he made the law his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 538 pàgines
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the 4vay : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Such early judgment determined his father to send him to France, that he might improve himself under... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 536 pàgines
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." searches of her biographers. She appears to have been living in 1596, and Ballard conjectures that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pàgines
...the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high abilities, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." customs, and the characters and objects of their princes and ministers ; and, in his nineteenth year,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pàgines
...the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high abilities, but for the unfruitful ncn of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." customs, and the characters and objects of their princes and ministers ; and, in his nineteenth year,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 pàgines
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Such early judgment determined his father to send him to France, that he might improve himself under... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pàgines
...philosophy, as his lordship used " to say, onely strong for disputations and con" tentions, but barren of the production of works " for the benefit of the life of Man." Such were his sentiments when a youth at Cambridge. " As the time of sowing the seed may be known,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 540 pàgines
...would ever ascribe all high attributes, but on the unfruitf ulness of the ways, being a philosopby only for disputations and contentions, but barren...truth, as must ever be the case, gradually prevailed ; and about the middle of the seventeenth century the dogmas of the Aristotelian school gave way to... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pàgines
...of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man, in which mind he continued to his dying day." — (Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon.) His intellectual efforts... | |
 | 1837 - 272 pàgines
...of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man, in which mind he continued to his dying day." — (Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon.) His intellectual efforts... | |
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Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of... 
