 | 1849 - 858 pages
...monasteries and colleges — and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of the great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of...curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself, which they handle, when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy, whereof there are no small number,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge, to putrify , are, as was said, tanqtiam tabula naufragii, when...observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1850 - 214 pages
...are well portrayed by Lord Bacon, in reference to the " Schoolmen," before his time, who, he says, " shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." SECTION II. THE COMMON VIEW OF GEOMETRY. GEOMETERS have always felt embarrassed by their definitions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin e such there is no law to punish, •'else a man's enemyliTstill beforehand, and it is • profit."1 Instead of the university being formed for the discovery of truths, he saw that its object... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...cells of monasteries and colleges, and who, knowing little history cither of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." * He paid due homage to the gigantic intellect of the Dictator; but he ridiculed the unfruitfulness... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...cells of monasteries and colleges, and who, knowing little history either of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."* He paid due homage to the gigantic intellect of the Dictator; but he ridiculed the unfruitfulness of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out uuto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 5. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | 1852 - 718 pages
...imagine they explained the phenomena) as falling under the rebuke of Lord Bacon, when he says : " The art and mind of man if it work upon matter which is the...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — (Advancement of Learning, p. 41.) It is no part of our design to enter into a disquisition as to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...is limited thereby / but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endiess, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 4. Unprofitable curiosity is of two sorts ........ 171 1. Fruitless speculation. 2. Erroneous modes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, workcth subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
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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... 
