 For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings...  New Elements of Geometry - Page 23by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...infinite igiulion of wit, spin out into those laborious webs of learning which are eiunt in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which a the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the staff, and ii limited thereby... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1834 - 480 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those " laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. " For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...the 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...happiness." much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil.* PHILOSOPHISING AND THEORISING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...LIFE AND WORKS. 115 mind of man,' he adds, ' if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff,...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed, cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1835 - 392 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuft', and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. f the face is caused by a contention, first to bear...first, and afterwards open. Grinding of the teeth and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...The French naturalists, Buflbn and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists: the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of... | |
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