 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1835 - 392 lapas
...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...of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuft', and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 lapas
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For their VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 lapas
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the subject itself that they... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 lapas
...The French naturalists, Buflbn and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists: the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. and Emglish philosophers took the contagion: and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 lapas
...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 lapas
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 lapas
...concealed love feeds on the cheek, is a fact in fancy. So in Bacon, — " But if it (the mind 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... | |
 | 1841 - 530 lapas
...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...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. "-f- Raised up at a time when true Realism had not only been banished from the schools, but a pseudo-ideal... | |
 | 1847 - 662 lapas
...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...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 lapas
...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,... | |
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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 forth... 
