 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
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 382 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...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the thread and work, but of no substance and profit." — Advancement of Learning, vol. ii. p. 428. Yet,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures yof God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited...forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the thread and work, but of no substance and profit." — -Advancement of Learning, vol. ii. p. 428. Yet,... | |
 | William Sharp - Homeopathy - 1856 - 384 pages
...a fanciful garment wherewith to cover our ignorance. " For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of the thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...illustration in the Advancement of Learning — " 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 thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Or, yet more, of those intricate and ingenious calculations,... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1860 - 812 pages
...Lion Court, Fleet-street, RICHARD TAYLOR. Sept. 29, 1829. 1 " 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 uo substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PAET... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is 1 In the translation he mentions another vanity of style, though not of so bad , a kind, as commonly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is 1 In the translation he mentions another vanity of style, though not of so bad a kind, as commonly... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 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...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is 1 In the translation he mentions another vanity of style, tnough not of so bad a kind, as commonly... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 pages
...— as when Bacon says (Advance. of Learning, B. »'.), " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby;" or as it is written in our authorized version of the Scriptures (1 Tim. iv. 4), " Every creature of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...learning reigned chiefly amongst the M-IIi u ili i •-, 170 The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endtess, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of Earning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work,... | |
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