 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...spider.) The wit and mind of man .... 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, but of no substance or profit. (Advt. of L. i. ; Spedding, iii. 295.) 1 Said, in the original,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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,...in the subject itself that they handle, when it is fruitless speculation or controversy, whereof there are no small number both of divinity and philosophy... | |
 | 1843 - 538 pages
...spider 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.'' An Address on the Homoeopathic System of Medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society, at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 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 thread and work, but of ,, jio substance or profit. \ 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit." While not indifferent to graces of style, Bacon criticised the excessive humanistic tendency of his... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1888 - 714 pages
...but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forward, indeed, cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." How could the study of groups be either easier or more satisfactory than that of individual man ? The... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...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." * Translation from his father's house, from conversation with a mother who employed her learning and... | |
 | John Scott - 1890 - 370 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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit." BACON — Advancement of Learning. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED. 1890. Q 342467 As a token of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit." He constantly urged an investigation of nature, whereby philosophy might be planted on a solid foundation,... | |
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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... 
