 I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works...  Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter - Page 135by Ben Jonson - 1892 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Character - 1878 - 346 pages
...superficial, without depth, heart, or substance. And this was noted long ago by a great thinker as " the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." And though these different modes of unsoundness arc closely related to one another — for error most... | |
 | Connop Thirlwall - 1878 - 514 pages
...superficial, without depth, heart, or substance. And this was noted long ago by a great thinker, as " the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter." And though these different modes of unsoundness are closely related to one another — for error most... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 pages
...on the subject. "The first distemper of learning," says he, "is when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or a limned... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 756 pages
...into the habit of regarding the details of outer form, rather than the substance of what he reads. " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Is it true that if you take care of the teacher of English, his pupil will be taken care of? Whatever... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...the subject. " The first distemper of learning," says he, " is when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or a limned... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 154 pages
...on the subject. "The first distemper of learning," says he, "is when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or a limned... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...contempt; imputing it to misunderstanding, fear, passion, or what you will. DISCREDITS OF LEARNING. HERE is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...Hermogenes 2 the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods, and imitation, and the like. Then did Car of Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or limned 2... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English literature - 1884 - 134 pages
...on the subject. "The first distemper of learning," says he, "is when men study words and not matter. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or a limned... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or limned book... | |
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