 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 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.1 1 Rawley, Life, etc., p. 37. 343 Let us quote a few of... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - History - 1956 - 746 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 until his dying day. Later, Bacon constantly urged that Aristotelian logic... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...philosophy of Aristotle . . . being a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." The early church fathers, expounding Aristotle, had indicated that as a guide to truth, faith was preferable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 464 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,... | |
 | William James Bouwsma - History - 2002 - 328 pages
...saying that Aristotle's philosophy was "only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man." Bacon was especially opposed to Aristotle's subordination of man to nature; for him, nature existed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2001 - 136 pages
...' unfruitfulness,' ' being a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man.' Unless we disbelieve this statement, the boy-student then had already seized on the main idea of his... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1901 - 281 pages
...Aristotelian 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 Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1908 - 544 pages
...philosophy of Aristotle, ...being a philosophy only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man'". His general attitude towards ancient philosophy is briefly summed up by Macaulay : ' Two words form... | |
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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... 
