 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
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 624 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 638 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 628 pages
...distemper of learning, when men ;ttidy words and not matter : whereof though I have represented ..n example of late times, yet it hath been and will be...have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, "hen they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent or limned book... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...of ancient authors, hatred of the schoolmen, exact study of languages, and efficacy of preaching — the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter. Words may carefully and properly be fitted to the matter, but whoever seeks truth will despise those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...towards copia than weight. <Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when .// mejTjitudy words, and not matter ; whereof, though I have represented^...hath been, and will be, Secundum majus et minus [in a greater or less degree] in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. 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;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 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 found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 pages
...Tarragona, and sent by St. Augustine on a mission to Jerusalem in th« wiumeiiceiuent of the fifth century. 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 found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1902 - 440 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 found... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
.... words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter." — Cymbeline, i. 5 (1623). " Here, then, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, and not matter." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). 187 WRITTKG FOR " Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,... | |
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