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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... "
The Universal review; or, Chronicle of the literature of all nations - Page 394
1824
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 106

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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3

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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 536 pages
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way : being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...production of works for the benefit of the life of man." searches of her biographers. She appears to have been living in 1596, and Ballard conjectures that...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high abilities, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...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,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...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 and contentions,...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,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 3

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way : 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...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

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,...
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The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow, Volume 1

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...truth, as must ever be the case, gradually prevailed ; and about the middle of the seventeenth century the dogmas of the Aristotelian school gave way to...
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The Gallery of Portraits:: With Memoirs ....

Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...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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The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus Adolphus

Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...of the author, to whom he would ascribe all high attributes, but for the unfruitfulness of the way ; being a philosophy only for disputations and contentions,...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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