 | Joseph Mayer - 1927 - 540 oldal
...attitude toward their methods could be given. In another place he caustically says of them : Having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a fewauthors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator), as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries... | |
 | Helen Keller - 1927 - 230 oldal
...did reign chiefly amongst the schoolmen, who, having sharp and strong wits and abundance of leisure, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." The new thoughts about the... | |
 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - 1968 - 180 oldal
...wrote, "This degenerate learning did briefly reign among the Schoolmen, who having strong and sharp wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of...great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spun out to us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Giambattista Vico - 1944 - 260 oldal
...Bacon put it: '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 . . . and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 oldal
...Church. This kind of degenerate learning', he wrote, 'did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen: who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and...a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)., .did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 oldal
...famous passage : This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the 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, chiefly Aristotle their Dictator, as their... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 oldal
...made clear, for example, in the Advancement of Learning, where Bacon again says that The schoolmen ... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,... did out of no great quantity of matter spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are... | |
 | Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - 1988 - 339 oldal
...scholasticism that dominated the university in his day. He described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator" (quoted in Eiseley , 1973). Throughout the rest of his scholarly life he was to stress the conflict... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 oldal
...'those laborious webs of learning' which, according to Francis Bacon, the scholastic philosophers spun out of 'no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit'. The task of the responsible biographer is to clear away the cobwebs, and sift, as dis75 11. Anne Hathaway's... | |
 | Ernst Breisach - 1993 - 272 oldal
...possible a useless spinning of 130 "laborious webs of learning" that had resulted in scholars with "their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges." 3 Now, in the modern period, a pragmatically reshaped rationality must and would pervade all thought... | |
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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 dictator... 
