 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endtess, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of Earning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 4. Unprofitable curiosity is of two sorts 171 1. Fruitless speculation. 2. Erroneous modes of investigation.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...and sound knowledge to putrify and to dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as 1 may term them, vermiculate questions, which have indeed...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. The following short paragraph, with which he concludes his observations on this branch of the subject,... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it. — NOVDM ORGANON. The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. — ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.—NOVUM ORGANON. The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.—ADVANCEMENT OP LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their... | |
 | 1860 - 514 pages
...the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, there it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or prnfit.' ' But still grinder is the following, which, though in some degree anticipated in certain... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 pages
...ment of Learning. By Francis, Lord '•' Adams' Hippoc. p. 232. Verulam. Edited by B. Montague, Esq. creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."1 The test of true induction is experience ; any proposition concerning matter, which will... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettineu. 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 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. The following short paragraph, with which he concludes his observations on this branch of the subject,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. 3 For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. » For an account of the Schoolmen, see Hampden's Hampton Lectures, preached at Oxford 1832. tion ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate...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... | |
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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... 
