 | J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 pages
...sources. His condemnation indeed was marked, though his practice did not wholly concur. He has said : " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning,...an example of late times, yet it hath been and will SHAKSPERE'S FREEDOM. 531 "be Secundum majus et minus in all time." This last phrase with an allusion... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...feather ; all portray'd the vanished soul— Doth it not hint of origin divine ? •VII. (Muratimi — " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words, not matter."—Advancement of Learning. "Qns Imberbi didicere, senes perdenda fateri."—HORACE. SHAME... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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,...majus et minus" in all time. And how is it possible that this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 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... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1876 - 556 pages
...languages rule in the study of science the results are not satisfactory. "This, therefore," said Bacon, "is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Science, to be disciplinary, has its own methods. Properly pursued, they have probably no superiors... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pages
...of Alexludria was as bad and disgraceful as that if the Countess Du Вапт under Louis XIV."— It is the first distemper of learning when men study words, and not matter." — Biicon, с Mülon. The phrase I? usually taken to describe those who set law and right at defiance... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copia, than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning,...times, yet it hath been, and will be secundum majus el minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning,... | |
 | Samuel Truesdale Livermore - 1877 - 396 pages
...innocence and simplicity." In doing the second he has hoped to shun what the same great philosopher calls " the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." Therefore those who read this book simply for the ornaments of language will be disappointed. Those... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1878 - 654 pages
...force. BOTANY. The professor keeps virtually in mind the words of Lord Bacon when he says : " This therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter." To get the definitions of the parts of plants, and by analysis and a comparison of the parts with an... | |
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Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; whereof, though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. 
