work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 7168,"",Reading in EEBO,2012-01-12 17:28:50 UTC,"[...] The ingenious Montaign, enquiring into the reason why Men of Learning do generally seem to be more uncouth in their Discourse as also more unfit for Business than other Men, saith, I cannot conceive the true Cause hereof, unless it be, that as Plants are Choakt by over-much Moisture, and Lamps are Stifl'd with too much Oil; so are the Actions of the Mind overwhelm'd by over-abundance of Matter and Study: And in a diversity of things, as in a mist, the Mind is apt to lose it self. [...]
(pp. 89-90)",,19451,"","""I cannot conceive the true Cause hereof [that Men of Learning are uncouth in their discourse], unless it be, that as Plants are Choakt by over-much Moisture, and Lamps are Stifl'd with too much Oil; so are the Actions of the Mind overwhelm'd by over-abundance of Matter and Study.""","",2012-01-12 17:28:50 UTC,Essay II. The Great Mischief and Prejudice of Learning; And that a Wise Man ought to be preferr'd before a Man of Learning