 | Lane Cooper - 1922 - 344 pages
...details of outer form, rather than the substance of what he reads. ' Here, therefore, ' as Bacon says, 'is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.'1 Is it not true that, if you take care of the teacher of English, his pupil will be taken... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore 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... | |
 | 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 and not matter: whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be secundum majus... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...despised as 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, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
