| 1860 - 514 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, there it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or prnfit.' ' But still grinder is the following, which, though in some degree anticipated in certain... | |
| John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed, cobwebs of learning,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."1 The test of true induction is experience ; any proposition concerning matter, which will... | |
| Sir George Young - 1862 - 120 pages
...of orthodoxy, the speculators of the middle ages performed such 1 " This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they" (the Schoolmen) "handle, when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy, whereof there are no small... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a... | |
| 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness 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 theyuhandle, when it is a ^fruitless speculation or controversy (whereof there are no small number... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...and is limited thereby ; ' but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ' then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of ' learning,...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... | |
| Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...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... | |
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