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... The Retrospective Review - Page 2901821Full view - About this book
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...Contentious learning reigned chiefly amongst the schoolmen 38 The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the jineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. (b) See note (B) at the end. 4. Unprofitable... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1834 - 480 pages
...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...endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admi" rable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance " or profit."—Lord Bacon—Proficiency... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...frivolity, rouged like a harlot, and with the harlot's wanton leer. I know not how the annals of guilt could God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider be better forced into the service of virtue, than by such a comment on the present paragraph, as would... | |
| William Gray - English prose literature - 1835 - 120 pages
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| Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1835 - 380 pages
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| William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 124 pages
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| Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1835 - 392 pages
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| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of... | |
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