 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...of nature and times ; they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter, those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | 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,...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.... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pages
...who, " knowing little history, either of nature or t me, did, out of no great quantity of matter ami infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those...webs of learning which are extant in their books." And then he adds : " Fur the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 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 is the contemplation of the ereatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. — Adv. of Learning, Bk.... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing little 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."... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 768 pages
...on Natural History, his 'History of Creatures? And Bacon says (Adv. of Learning, I- 4, § 5, P- 32); The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. Credence, sb. This word, which was formerly in as common use as ' credit,' which has superseded it,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1884 - 472 pages
...wide circumference of its interests. * Vera sum,' is its language, ' nihilverum a me alienum puto.' ' The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh accord* ing to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon ' itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 698 pages
...on Natural History, his ' History of Creatures.' And Bacon says (Adv. of Learning, ''4,1 5, P-32); The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the ereatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. Credence, sb. This word,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 pages
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nature or time, did. out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...webs of learning which are extant in their books." — Ibid. " If a man meditate much upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the... | |
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... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of... 
