 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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, which...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is 1 In the translation he mentions another vanity of style, though not of so bad a kind, as commonly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 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, which...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endiess, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 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, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, i worketh according to the stuff, and is limited I thereby ; bat if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it. — NOVDM ORGANON. 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. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.—NOVUM ORGANON. The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.—ADVANCEMENT OP LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their... | |
 | 1860 - 514 pages
...the 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...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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1176 pages
...mind of man if it work upon matter" — (tiie matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as ihe spider worketh his web, then it is •jndless and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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, which...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is 1 In the translation he mentions another vanity of style, though not of so bad a kind, as commonly... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 pages
...to speculation as a guide, he became weak as other men. " For," again to use the words of Bacon, " the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the 1 Of the Proficience and Advance- 1833. T. 171 ment of Learning. By Francis, Lord '•' Adams' Hippoc.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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, which...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they... | |
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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 forth... 
