 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 646 pages
...philosophy, as his Lordship used to say, only strong for disputation and contention, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man — in which mind he continued to his dying day."1 On leaving Cambridge he went to Paris, not to study,... | |
 | O'dell Travers Hill - Monasticism and religious orders - 1867 - 564 pages
...Aristotelianism, that it was " a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Thus were ranged under two scholastic standards the two great orders of Mendicant Friars, the Dominicans... | |
 | 1867 - 880 pages
...Aristotelianism, that it was "a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Thus were ranged under two scholastic standards the two great orders of mendicant friars, the Dominicans... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations 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.' The story which has been told above of the iron pillar... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 678 pages
...Philosophy (as his Lordship used to say) only strong for disputations 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 he had passed the circle of the Liberal Arts ; his... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations 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." In September, 1576, Sir Amyas Paulet went to Paris... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1873 - 884 pages
...Aristotelianiem, that it was "a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Thus were ranged under two scholastic standards tlie two great orders of mendicant friars, the Domiuicans... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1873 - 168 pages
...Aristotelianism, that it was " a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." (Quoted in Hill's English Monasticism, p. 409.) I hasten now to shew a certain subtle connexion existing... | |
 | Education - 1873 - 862 pages
...Aristoteliauism, that it was "a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Thus were ranged under two scholastic standards the two great orders of mendicant friars, the Dominicans... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 714 pages
...Aristotelianism, that it was " a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." (Quoted in Hill's English Monasticism, p. 409.) I hasten now to shew a certain subtle connexion existing... | |
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Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way; being a philosophy (as his lordship used to say) only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of... 
