 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 Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 30by Francis Bacon - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...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...worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...naturalists, Buflbn and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists: the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. and Emglish philosophers took the contagion: and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...naturalists, Buffon and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists : the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or pro6t. and English philosophers took the contagion : and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...concealed love feeds on the cheek, is a fact in fancy. So in Bacon, — " But if it (the mind of man) work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then...forth indeed cobwebs of learning admirable for the firmness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." That the spider makes a web is a fact... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. "-f- Raised up at a time when true Realism had not only been banished from the schools, but a pseudo-ideal... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...man," says he, " if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."— Advancement of Learning, book i, pp. 170, 171.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 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 the Spiritualists,... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1843 - 506 pages
...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...worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth cobwebs of learning, admirable indeed for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but...the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no... | |
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