 ... laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. 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...  Advancement of Learning - Page 57by Francis Bacon - 1902 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - 152 pages
...nature or time—did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - 290 pages
...nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1910 - 476 pages
...or time— did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1896 - 394 pages
...of time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and inind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...certain disease of learning, since it is no more than a jingle, or peculiar quaint affectation of words.h And so much for the first disease of learning. The...learning which are extant in their books. For the h\iman mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 pages
...nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...time — did, out of no great 25 quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...nature or time : did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh... | |
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