 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - Liczba stron: 304
...referring to his masters and fellows as — " Men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - Liczba stron: 152
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - Liczba stron: 392
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of the monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - Liczba stron: 564
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Liczba stron: 654
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - Liczba stron: 436
...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) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Liczba stron: 728
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - Liczba stron: 290
...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), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - Liczba stron: 378
...found himself, to use his own language, " amid men of sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, their wits being shut...a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and who, knowing little history,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1886 - Liczba stron: 472
...curious that need not — be known unto us.' ' Their wits,' to come back to the words of Lord Bacon, ' being shut up in the cells 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... | |
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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... 
