 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
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...us those laborious webs of are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and_ brings jbrth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable^ £or^.llie_,fia£fl£SS. of thread and work,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - History - 1968 - 180 pages
...in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it works upon matter worketh according to the stuff, but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it brings forth cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...logical positivists and semanticists of the 1930's: ' "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." The Advancement of Learning is in two books : the first... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - History - 1956 - 746 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...thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider a Ie ratiocination not modified by the humble observation of nature. Cf. Farrington (14). b A most... | |
 | Alan Holland - History - 1985 - 364 pages
...the absence of observation, which is always disastrous: For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures...work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then is it endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 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... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...subtlety, but not wisdom. "The wit and mind of man," as Bacon put it, "if it work upon the matter, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby;...the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no... | |
 | Brian Lawn - History - 1993 - 194 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".8 One is reminded of the words of the twelfth-century... | |
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