 | 1847 - 662 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed 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,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." The author has a strong faith, indeed, that something mirrht be done OO by somebody in the right direction,... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness...thread and work, but of no substance or profit."* In other times, the grand attempt to repress the right of free discussion has been by laws of censorship... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...thread and work, but of no substance or profit.'' And a little further on, he adds — " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school-men, to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his weh, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. The following short paragraph, with which he concludes his observations on this branch of the subject,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...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... | |
 | Robert Mushet - 1847 - 524 pages
...discoverable in this very simplicity. It is the systems and theories of men which arc complex and intricate, " admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit," as says Lord Bacon ; it is the fine-spun web of human speculation, which entangles truth in its meshes... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 548 pages
...cells of monasteries and colleges, and who knowing little history either of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of * We owe this and the most authentic anecdotes respecting his early years to Rawley. " (He autem tanta... | |
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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... 
