 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...  The Advancement of Learning, Book I - Page 31by Francis Bacon - 1904 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...is the contemplation of the creatures of God, II 2 ' worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby ; ' but if it work upon itself, as the spider...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... | |
 | Virginia - 1873 - 614 pages
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." But this criticism from the father of modern science is only deserved, if applied to the exclusive... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 838 pages
...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 cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...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 jbrth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable^ £or^.llie_,fia£fl£SS. of thread and work,... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pages
...out of false facts. and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh bis web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. " Upon t'.icso intcllectnalists, which are, notwithstanding, taken for the most sublime and divine... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little farther on he adds : " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those schoolmen, to their... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 278 pages
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — " Advancement of Learning," B. i, n. ¿c. ENGLISH LITERATURE. It was against such " subtle, idle,... | |
 | Peter Bowering - 1968 - 260 pages
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