 Whilst he was commorant in the university, about sixteen * years of age (as his lordship hath been pleased to impart unto myself), he first fell into the dislike of the philosophy of Aristotle ; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would...  A Harmony of the Essays, Etc. of Francis Bacon - Page xiiby Francis Bacon - 1895 - 584 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 628 pages
...unfruitfulness of the way; being * ' philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for dis' putations and contentions, but barren of the production of '...which mind he ' continued to his dying day.' After a time spent in travel, he made the law his professional study ; but he was also already employed in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 538 pages
...unfruitfulness of the 4vay : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Such early judgment determined his father to send him to France, that he might improve himself under... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 536 pages
...unfruitfulness of the way : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." searches of her biographers. She appears to have been living in 1596, and Ballard conjectures that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." customs, and the characters and objects of their princes and ministers ; and, in his nineteenth year,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...unfruitful ncn of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." customs, and the characters and objects of their princes and ministers ; and, in his nineteenth year,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...unfruitfulness of the way : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Such early judgment determined his father to send him to France, that he might improve himself under... | |
 | 1824 - 762 pages
...unfruitfulness of the ways, being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." It was, however, easier for the genius of a Bacon to discover the errors of a system, than to remove... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...being a philosophy, as his lordship used " to say, onely strong for disputations and con" tentions, but barren of the production of works " for the benefit of the life of Man." Such were his sentiments when a youth at Cambridge. " As the time of sowing the seed may be known,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - Sermons, English - 1830 - 540 pages
...unfruitf ulness of the ways, being a philosopby only for disputations and contentions, but barren in the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." It was, however, easier for the genius of a Bacon to discover the errors of a system, than to remove... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 1102 pages
...used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the life of man. In which mind he continued to his dying day.' Hronze mpftal, British Museum. (From Uw acnes of Itaeier metlalh.) On leaving Cambridge, lie entered... | |
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