 | 1829 - 592 pages
...and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their wits being shut up in the colls of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 'The same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, workcth according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : 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, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, ' as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings ' forth indeed cobwebs of...' thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' — Q. Does the knowledge of a country ever rise higher than its metaphysics? — L'homme n'est que... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 550 pages
...Soul, in reply to Mr. Rennel," (Hunter, 1821), ascribed to a clergyman of the Irish church. •)• " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Bacon,s Adv. of Learning. • Present Participle and its relation to Verbals in ing; nor to subtile... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...of virtue. Oft be bends His turret crest, and sleek enamelled neck. Fawning, and licks the ground. worketh his web, then it is endless and brings forth...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PARTS OF MIND. THE logical part of men's minds is often good; but the mathematical... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 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." (a) (a) See the Advancement of Learning, under Contentious Learning. See Gibbon's Memoirs. See vol.... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...spider worketh his web, then it is " endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admi" rable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance " or profit."—Lord Bacon—Proficiency and Advancement of Learning, " The schoolmen's waste of ingenuity... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 122 pages
...so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtile, idle, unwholesome, and, as I may term them, vermiculate...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no " the fleshly-minded .hypocrites had lost thejr juggling terms, wherewith they imposed on, and misled,... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1835 - 380 pages
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges; and knowing little history, either of nature or of time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — Lord Bacon — Proficiency and Advancement of Learning. " The schoolmen's waste of ingenuity and... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 120 pages
...knowing little history, either of nature or lime, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and in6nite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no " the fleshly-minded hypocrites had lost their juggling terms, wherewith they imposed on, and misled,... | |
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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... 
