 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1843 - 506 pages
...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...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
...and mind of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby...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... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is limited therebj; 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 fineness of thread anc1 work, but of no... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...concealed love feeds on the cheek, is a fact in fancy. So in Bacon, — "But if it (the rniud 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... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...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 w6rk upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...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...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
...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...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his weh, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they... | |
 | 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... 
