 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who, having strong and sharp wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little farther on he adds : " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those schoolmen, to their... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 254 pages
...to distinguish them, to guard against the intrusion of scholastic notions into the field of fact. " 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," B. 1, o. 40. It was against such " subtle, idle, unwholesome, and vermiculate... | |
 | 1883 - 540 pages
...strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading (but their wits being shut \ip in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. — LORD BACON. Now came the great age of the Schoolmen. Latin Christianity raised up those vast monuments... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - 152 pages
...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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit." It does not belong within these limits to indicate the true position or influence of scholasticism... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...either of nature or time, 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." * Translation from his father's house, from conversation with a mother who employed her learning and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1884 - 244 pages
...them, to guard against the intrusion of scholastic notions into the field of fact. " The wit and n>ind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — "Advancement of Learning," B. i, p. 40. It was against such " subtle, idle, unwholesome, and vermiculate... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1884 - 478 pages
...man, if it work upon matter which ; is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh accord' ing to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work...of 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... | |
 | 1843 - 538 pages
...spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth cobwebs of learning, admirable indeed for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.'' An Address on the Homoeopathic System of Medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society, at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 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... | |
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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... 
