 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
 | 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...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. and Emglish philosophers took the contagion: and the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...The French naturalists, Buffon and others, borrowed it from the sentimental novelists : the Swedish God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or pro6t. and English philosophers took the contagion : and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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 subtilty or curiosity is of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...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 of the creatures...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.... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . 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. "-f- Raised up at a time when true Realism had not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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