 This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the 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 (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)...  A History of Classical Scholarship - Page 339by John Edwin Sandys - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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,...of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...soundness of matter or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits,...of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...soundness of matter or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits,...of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits,...a- few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen ; who having sharp and strong wits,...of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality^ This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, and...of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits,...of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Education - 1829 - 592 pages
...soundness of matter, or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who having sharp and strong wits, 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... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...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 of leisure, and little variety of reading, but their wits being shot nji in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle... | |
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