 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 sider
...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 Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 sider
...school-men, 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 Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 sider
...school-men, 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... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 sider
..."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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 sider
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sider
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 sider
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 sider
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 592 sider
...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,...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... | |
 | 1832 - 698 sider
...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... | |
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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... 
