 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...LIFE AND WORKS. 115 mind of man,' he adds, ' if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' Another error, he says, is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due suspension of... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1835 - 392 pages
...work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuft', and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — Lord Bacon — Proficiency and Advancement of Learning. "The schoolmen's waste of ingenuity and... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 pages
...the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no " the fleshly-minded hypocrites had lost their juggling terms, wherewith they imposed on, and misled,... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness...thread and work, but of no substance or profit."* In other times, the grand attempt to repress the right of free discussion has been by laws of censorship... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...The French naturalists, Buflbn and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists: the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. and Emglish philosophers took the contagion: and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...The French naturalists, Buffon and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists : the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or pro6t. and English philosophers took the contagion : and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. "-f- Raised up at a time when true Realism had not only been banished from the schools, but a pseudo-ideal... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...cells of a few authors, did, out of no great 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." There are two methods of philosophizing in general, that of the Materialists and the Spiritualists,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." The author has a strong faith, indeed, that something mirrht be done OO by somebody in the right direction,... | |
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Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious... 
