...would accuse of paying more attention to 'copie' [ie copiousness] than 'weight', and then go on to say: 'Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter'.1 Doctor Johnson was certainly of this opinion. Picking out the line 'Light, seeking light,...

...an end. Now for the first time, in 1605, we get constant emphasis on the dangers of verbalism. 'Here is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter."134 Fifteen years later, in the Psychologie, vol. 1, p. 115. The relevant Latin passages are...

...weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgement 3. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter 5. The second which followeth is in nature worse than the former: for as substance of matter is better...

...as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copiousness than weight. Here, therefore, is the first distemper...of learning, when men study words and not matter, whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it has been and will be more or less...

...despised as barbarous. In sum, the whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter: whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be "secundum...

...Otras de ellas eran la inclinación a preocuparse más por las palabras que por la materia: Here... is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter... It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity, for words are...

...whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight. Here therefore is0 the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter: whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be 'secundum...

...Advancement of Learning, p. 140. Bacon invokes these Herculean labourers when discussing stylistic excess, 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' (ibid., p. 139). Hercules' followers exemplify those who shun stylistic affectation. 26 Sylva Sylvarum...

...instruction. At the other pole stood the formidable Francis Bacon, who considered the imitation of Cicero, 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter.' 'Then did Car of Cambridge and Ascham with their lectures and writings almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes,...

...then wisely, got vp in the highest place of our best & He echoes Francis Bacon's statement that it is 'the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter' (Ben Jonson, Discoveries, ed. by George Bagshawe Harrison [London: John Lane, 1923], p. 80). See my...