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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 30
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Tracts on Homoeopathy, Issues 1-12

William Sharp - 1853 - 288 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 for the fineness of the thread, and work, but of no substance or profit."*...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...and mind of man, if it wort upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worked! according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his wet., then it is end. less and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for L. cf .l,r«n.!...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, Volume 1

Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures yof God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the thread and work, but of no substance and profit." — -Advancement of Learning, vol. ii. p. 428. Yet,...
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An Investigation of Homoeopathy

William Sharp - 1856 - 384 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 for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker - 1856 - 432 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;...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker - 1856 - 472 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,...
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The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Volume 1

Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Or, yet more, of those intricate and ingenious calculations, "quaint opinions wide," formerly made...
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The Diversions of Purley

John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 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...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of uo substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PAET I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OE...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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...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...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...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...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...
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