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" ... resembling those, which, in our time, that antipode to things, as well as to himself, Cardan, busied himself in forming. But, whilst I thus arraign the works of Aristotle, let me not be supposed a conspirator and in league with Ramus, that modern... "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 264
by Francis Bacon - 1815
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St ...

Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw - 1733 - 658 pages
...that modern Rebel againft him. I have no affeftion for thztfeuIkingHele of Ignorance, that deftrudlive Bookworm of Learning, that Father of Epitomes*, who, when he wrings and prefles things with the Shackles of his Method, and Contraction ; the Subftance, if there was any,...
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Philosophic Etymology: Or Rational Grammar

James Gilchrist - 1816 - 296 pages
...ignorance, [what sort of holes would he have called the German and Scotch metaphysicians and rhetoricians ?J that destructive book-worm of learning, that father...he grasps nothing but the empty chaff and exhausted carcase. "Aquinas has gone further, and spun a variety of things out of nothing, leaving by way of...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...the vainest idols. And what adds to his guilt, he has, even upon the history of particulars, raised certain cobweb structures which he would palm upon...he grasps nothing but the empty chaff and exhausted carcass. Aquinas has gone further, and spun a variety of things out of nothing : leaving, by way of...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...has, even upon the history of particulars, raised certain cobweb structures which he would pahn HIKIII mankind for causes, whilst in reality they are matters...he grasps nothing but the empty chaff and exhausted carcass. Aquinas has gone further, and spun a variety of things out of nothing : leaving, by way of...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...against him. 1 have no affection for that sculting hole of ignorance, that destructive hookworm of loan. that father of epitomes, who, when he wrings and presses...with the shackles of his method and contraction, the suhstance, if there was any, immediately starts out and escape: him, whilst he grasps nothing hut the...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy

George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...let me not be supposed a conspirator and in league with Ramus, that modern rebel against him. I hare no affection for that sculking hole of ignorance,...he grasps nothing but the empty chaff and exhausted carcass. Aquinas has gone further, and spun a variety of things out of nothing : leaving, by way of...
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Baconiana

1903 - 306 pages
...indignant tirade against the philosopher Ramus, which runs : — " I have no affection for that skulking hole of ignorance, that destructive bookworm of learning, that father of epitomes." If there is not " a ghost of a likeness " in the construction of these examples, it would be interesting...
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