 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 576 pages
...no great Quantity of Matter, but infinite Agitation of Wit and Spirit, fpin out unto us thofc moft laborious Webs of Learning, which are extant in their Books. For the Mind of Man, (if it work upon Matter, by contemplating the Nature of Things, and the Works of God )... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...of nature and times ; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, ;f it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, wprketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 pages
..."theschoolmen having sharp and strong wits, ami abundance of leisure, but small reading either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us (hose laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and knowing little history, either of nature...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."(a)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, workcth according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...their dictator) as their perawa were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing link history either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite igiulion of wit, spin out into those laborious webs of learning which are eiunt in their books. For... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges ; and knowing little history, either of nature...quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...happiness." much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil.* PHILOSOPHISING AND THEORISING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...so much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil." PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
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... did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. 
