 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...  The Diversions of Purley - Page livby John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 739 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 124 pages
...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...it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1835 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...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 pages
...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...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...The French naturalists, Buflbn and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists: the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. and Emglish philosophers took the contagion: and the Muse of science condescended... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1840 - 808 pages
...to such as are fond of the studies which it was designed to promote. Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, RICHARD TAYLOR. Sept. 29, 1829. . 1 " The wit and...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PART I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OF... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...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 pages
...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...admirable for the fineness 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... | |
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