 | Theodore Parker - 1856 - 472 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,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1856 - 432 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;... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 pages
...which it was designed to promote. Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, RICHARD TAYLOR. Sept. 29, 1829. 1 " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of uo substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PAET I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OE... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pages
...us of Bacon's illustration in the Advancement of Learning — " The wit and mind of man," says he, " if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Or, yet more, of those intricate and ingenious calculations, "quaint opinions wide," formerly made... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...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 a... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...but 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal pretttnew. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. w This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 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." k He paid due homage to the gigantic intellect of the " Dictator ; " but he ridiculed the unfruitfulness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well aa the other, a kind of hunting after words and M-rhal prettinera. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 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." And a little further on, he adds—" Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school-men, to their... | |
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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... 
