 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)...  Philosophical works - Page 10by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...quickness, and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degene.ate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...many substances in nature which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms : so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, wprketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...many substances in nature which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms : so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...solid, do putrefy and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...many substances in nature, which are solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | 1829 - 592 pages
...and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their wits being shut up in the colls of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...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, and...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff", and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...up in the " cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, " either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of " matter, and...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh " according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it " work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 122 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
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