 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...Aristotelcan philosophy, as " a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." As a law-student of twenty-one he sketched in a tract on the " Greatest Birth of Time " the system... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...Aristotelean philosophy, as " a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." As a law-student of twenty-one he sketched in a tract on the " Greatest Birth of Time " the system... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...philosophy, as his lordship used to say, only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of please nobody but the painter that made them : not but I th After spending three years at Cambridge, he went to France, where he PROSE LITERATURE. LORD BACON.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...noted the ' unfruitfulness of a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man.' 2 Such is the testimony of his biographer, speaking of what had been ' imparted from his lordship '... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - Statesmen - 1877 - 338 pages
...Procemium, Works, vol. iii. pp. 518, 519. only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Such is the testimony of his biographer ; and he adds that this had been " imparted from his lordship."... | |
 | John Richard Green - History - 1878 - 520 pages
...Aristotelian philosophy, as " a philosophy only strong for disputatious and contentions but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." As a law student of twenty-one he sketched in a tract on the " Greatest Birth of Time " the system... | |
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 pages
...of the way ; being a philosophy, . . . only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man.' * And indeed, in Bacon's day, its infertility — in the form of scholasticism — had become manifest.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...noted the ' unfruitfulness of a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man.' a Such is the testimony of his biographer, speaking of what had been ' imparted from his lordship '... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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... | |
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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... 
