 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 312 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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...man, if it work upon matter, whipb.ia. the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh.according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1869 - 216 pages
...time, did, out of no great quan" tity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out " laborious cobwebs of learning, admirable for the " fineness...thread and work, but of no substance " or profit." * In this, as in other matters, some change was imperatively needed. It came. It came, as often happens,... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...'This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly 1) 9 reign amongst the Schoolmen: . who, havingsharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure and small...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' And a little farther on, in speaking of those who neglect the contemplation of nature and unduly reverence... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...and mind of man, if it work upon matter ' which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, II 2 ' worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby...thread and work, ' but of no substance or profit. Heraclitus gave a just ' censure, saying " Men sought truth in their own little ' " worlds, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 pages
...solid do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | Virginia - 1873 - 614 pages
...furnish an occasion, but of which they are not the cause. "The wit and mind of man," said Lord Bacon, "if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." But this criticism from the father of modern science is only deserved, if applied to the exclusive... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...worms ; so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a nuniber of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them,...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... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pages
...out of false facts. and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh bis web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. " Upon t'.icso intcllectnalists, which are, notwithstanding, taken for the most sublime and divine... | |
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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... 
