 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
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...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 - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - Homeopathy - 1843 - 506 pages
...the great principle Similia similibus, and remind him of the saying of the modern Plato— "• That the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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."... | |
 | Criticism - 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... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...warmth of human nature, who could help it ? It was an amiable weakness ! PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. 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. LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PARTS OF MIND. THE logical part of men's minds is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 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." And a little further on, he adds — " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 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...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... | |
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