 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 - Sivu 10tekijä(t) Francis Bacon - 1854Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 1094 sivua
...in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, they did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books. The following passage may be spurious, but few acquainted with medieval learning would regard it as... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 sivua
...reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)., .did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books.' These 'cobwebs of learning' were admirable for the fineness of their thread, but 'of no substance or... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 sivua
...schoolmen; who, having 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,...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 a... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 436 sivua
...97213-3644 Tel: (503) 287 3093 Fax: (503) 280 8832 Typeset by Character Typesetting, North Sydney, NSW This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign...For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter . . . worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Brian Lawn - 1993 - 194 sivua
...goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen . . . who did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 sivua
...Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges . . . did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books. (Works, 3.285) The same metaphor occurred to Edward Said in the 1980s to describe Foucault's concept... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 sivua
...good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as 1 may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed...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... | |
 | Dafydd Gibbon - 1996 - 1278 sivua
...cobweb serves to explain Bacon's critique of rigid knowledge with regard to the method of the schools: This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign...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... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - 1958 - 332 sivua
...throughout the world". He has little save contempt for the "degenerate learning" of the schoolmen (who) "did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books . . . but of no substance or profit." What he pleads for is experiment, co-operative investigation... | |
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