 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. — Adv. of Learning ', Bk. I. Works, III. 285. ESSAY VIII. p. 85, 1. 3. " Certainly," etc. : Lat.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. — Adv. of Learning, Bk. I. Works, III. •285. ESSAY p. 85, 1. 3. " Certainly," etc. : Lat. ut alibi... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...man, if it work upon matter, whipb.ia. the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh.according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1869 - 374 pages
...his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit;" or (Advance, of Learning, B. ?'.), " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, work-, eth according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; " or as it is written in our authorized... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 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...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' And a little farther on, in speaking of... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...wide circumference of its interests. ' Vera sum,' is its language, ' nihil verum a me alienum putc. 'The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter '...which 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... | |
 | Virginia - 1873 - 614 pages
...furnish an occasion, but of which they are not the cause. "The wit and mind of man," said Lord Bacon, "if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...forth indeed, cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." But this criticism from the father of... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 838 pages
...dreams ; such labours but the weaving of a fanciful garment wherewith to cover our ignorance. " For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby.—Adv. of Learning, Bk. I. Works, I IT. 285. ESSAY Vni. p. 85, 1. 3. " Certainly," etc.: Lat.... | |
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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... 
