 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great s contraction or compression causeth also wringing...parts knit first, and afterwards open. Grinding of thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...so much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil." PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit,...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... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...that spin their web out of the substance of their own bowels. " The wit and mind of man," says he, " if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...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... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1843 - 506 pages
...the great principle Similia similibus, and remind him of the saying of the modern Plato— "• That the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...Applcton & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 434. 1860.J Notices of Books. 215 noticed by Lord B.icon of the schoolmen. "For the wit and mind of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit,...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it w6rk upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...warmth of human nature, who could help it ? It was an amiable weakness ! PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...monasteries and colleges), and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit,...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his weh, then it is endless, and brings... | |
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