 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 218 pages
...Albans on the extravagances of learning. 6612. The study of words. Cf. The Advancement of Learning: " 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,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Albans on the extravagances of learning. 66 12. The study of words. Cf . The Advancement of Learning : " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning,...late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum ma/us et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 222 pages
...Albans on the extravagances of learning. 6612. The study of words. Cf. The Advancement of Learning: " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning,...example of late times, yet it hath been and will be stcundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...Greek ' Ove Asine.' Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. (I) " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning — when men study words, and not matter." (II) "Vain matter is worse than vain words," he says, and divides it into two sorts — when the subject... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...Greek ' Ove Asine.' Then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous. (I) " Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning — when men study words, and not matter." (II) " Vain matter is worse than vain words," he says, and divides it into two sorts — when the subject... | |
 | 1892 - 828 pages
...perseverance. — Steele. No fountain is so small that Heaven may not be imaged in its bosom. — Hawthorne. IT is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter. — Bacon. WITHOUT the ideal, the inexhaustible source of all progress, what would man be ? — Mdme.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
