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" Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus el minus in all time. "
Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ... - Page 145
by Ben Jonson - 1892 - 166 pages
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, secundnm tnajus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...times was rather towards copia than weight. 'Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, tvhen men study words and not matter : whereof, though I...example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, seeundum majus tt minvt in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...times, yet it hath been, and will be, secundum majus ft minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...bent of those times was rather towards copia than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of ' when men study words and not matter : whereof, though I have represented an example of late tinier, yet it hath been, and will be, secundvm majus tt minus in all time. And how is it possible...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: De augmentis scientiaurum

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...utterly despised, as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times, was rather upon fulness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning ; when men study words, and not matter : and, though we have given an example of it from later times, yet such levities have, and will be...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia, than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...will be secundum majus et minu-s in all time. And how it is possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities,...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards "copia" (fluency) than weighj/ ^Jere therefore is the first distemper of learning, when...hath been, and will be " secundum majus et minus" (either more or less) in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...barbarous. ( In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia, than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter) whereof L. though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...the delicate learning ; vain imaginations, vain altercations, and vain affectations. The accounts of the " first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter ; " of the second, when they follow speculations of " unprofitable subtility or curiosity ; " and of...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning,...late times, yet it hath been, and will be, " secundum majns et minus " in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit...
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