 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 sider
...weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter 5. The second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for as substance of matter is better... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 sider
...absorbed in words: "the first distemper of learning, [is] when men studie words, and not matter. . . . And how is it possible, but this should have an operation to discredite learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned mens works like the first Letter... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 sider
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copiousness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning,...have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be more or less in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation... | |
 | Wayne A. Rebhorn - 2000 - 340 sider
...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,...been and will be "secundum majus et minus" in all time.44 And how is it possible but this should have an operation45 to discredit learning, even with... | |
 | José Trías Monge - 2000 - 510 sider
...Otras de ellas eran la inclinación a preocuparse más por las palabras que por la materia: Here... is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for words are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 sider
...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore is0 the first distemper of learning, when men study words...times, yet it hath been and will be 'secundum majus et minus'0 in all time. And how is it possible but this should have0 an operation0 to discredit learning,... | |
 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 sider
...Advancement of Learning, p. 140. Bacon invokes these Herculean labourers when discussing stylistic excess, 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' (ibid., p. 139). Hercules' followers exemplify those who shun stylistic affectation. 26 Sylva Sylvarum... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 284 sider
...instruction. At the other pole stood the formidable Francis Bacon, who considered the imitation of Cicero, 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.' 'Then did Car of Cambridge and Ascham with their lectures and writings almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes,... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Ralf Hertel - 2008 - 330 sider
...then wisely, got vp in the highest place of our best & He echoes Francis Bacon's statement that it is 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' (Ben Jonson, Discoveries, ed. by George Bagshawe Harrison [London: John Lane, 1923], p. 80). See my... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 sider
...barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards "copia" than weight. Here, therefore, is the first todiscredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first... | |
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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. 
