 | John Scott - 1890 - 370 pages
...if it work upon itself, 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 no substance or profit." BACON — Advancement of Learning. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED. 1890. Q 342467 As a token of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...if it work upon itself, 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 no substance or profit." He constantly urged an investigation of nature, whereby philosophy might be planted on a solid foundation,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1895 - 516 pages
...follows censure of the fruitless speculations in which the wit of man, working upon itself, produces cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. The third vice or disease of Learning concerns the support of untruth by blind faith in Historical... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1895 - 508 pages
...censure of the fruitless speculations in which the wit of man, working upon itself, produces co'owebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. The third vice or disease of Learning concerns the support of untruth by blind faith in Historical... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1896 - 394 pages
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Scholasticism, as the first phase of the revival of learning, though overshadowed by tradition and... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...but if it work upon itself, 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 no substance or profit." He constantly urged an investigation of nature, whereby philosophy might be planted on a solid foundation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...if it work upon itself, 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 no substance or profit. ' THE FIRST BOOK 193 This same unprofitable subtlety or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject... | |
 | Joseph William Mellor - 1902 - 620 pages
...incomplete or simplified premises. Given a sufficient number of " if's," there is no end to the weaving of " cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit" (Bacon). The only safeguard is to compare the deductions of mathematics with observation and experiment... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 pages
...if it work upon itself, 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 no substance or profit.' And a little further on, he adds — ' Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school-men to... | |
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea - 1903 - 346 pages
...history, 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.' " — Cramer, Talks to Students on the Art of Study, p. 68, § 3. The Establishment of Mental Habits... | |
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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... 
