| 1857 - 628 pages
...philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for dis' putations and contentions, but barren of the production of ' works for the benefit of the life of man : in which mind he ' continued to his dying day.' After a time spent in travel, he made the law his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 538 pages
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the 4vay : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...Dr. Rawley, " for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high abilities, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy...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
...worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high abilities, but for the unfruitful ncn of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations...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
...early age, to object to the Aristotelian system, the only one then in repute, and to say, that his " exceptions against that great philosopher were not...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
...the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but on the unfruitfulness of the ways, being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...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
...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
...would ever ascribe all high attributes, but on the unfruitf ulness of the ways, being a philosopby only for disputations and contentions, but barren...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... | |
| Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...against that great philosopher not being founded on the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness...production of works for the benefit of the life of man, in which mind he continued to his dying day." — (Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon.) His intellectual efforts... | |
| Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...against that great philosopher not being founded on the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness...production of works for the benefit of the life of man, in which mind he continued to his dying day." — (Dr. Rawley's Life of Bacon.) His intellectual efforts... | |
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