| Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore fis] the first distemper of learning, when men study words...have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have... | |
| John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...that language is but the instrument, etc. See Watson, Vives on Education, pp. 90, 163. Compare Bacon: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.' — Advancement of Learning, ed. by Wright, p. 30. 53.3 Babel. Genesis n. 9. Compare Milton's sentence... | |
| John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...that language is but the instrument, etc. See Watson, Vives on Education, pp. 90, 163. Compare Bacon: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.' — Advancement of Learning, ed. by Wright, p. 30. 53.3 Babel. Genesis u. 9. Compare Milton's sentence... | |
| Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...unambiguous description of the process through which conclusions have been reached. When he complains of 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' [III, 284], it is the preoccupation with eloquence at the expense of content that he is objecting to.... | |
| Desiderius Erasmus - 1974 - 360 pages
...the epitaph of copia in that famous passage of his Advancement of Learning (1605) where he describes ‘the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.' According to Bacon the mischief began with Luther, who in his contest with the Roman Church ‘was... | |
| Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...most intractable impediment to any serious empirical enquiry into symbolic systems of representation: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; ... for words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall... | |
| James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...564. Bacon regularly attacks a reverence for linguistic forms as an impediment to empirical inquiry: 'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter: . . .for words are but the images of matter: and except they have life of reason and invention, to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...would accuse of paying more attention to 'copie' [ie copiousness] than 'weight', and then go on to say: 'Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter'.1 Doctor Johnson was certainly of this opinion. Picking out the line 'Light, seeking light,... | |
| Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pages
...though I haue represented an example of late times: yet it hath beene, and will be Secundum maius if minus in all time. And how is it possible, but this should haue an operation to discredite learning, euen with vulgar capacities, when they 70 see learned mens... | |
| Terrence Gordon - 1994 - 596 pages
...an end. Now for the first time, in 1605, we get constant emphasis on the dangers of verbalism. 'Here is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter."134 Fifteen years later, in the Psychologie, vol. 1, p. 115. The relevant Latin passages are... | |
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