 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...either of nature or time, 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." (a) (a) See the Advancement of Learning, under Contentious Learning. See Gibbon's Memoirs. See vol.... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1834 - 480 pages
...spider worketh his web, then it is " 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 and Advancement of Learning, " The schoolmen's waste of ingenuity... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed, cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' Another error, he says, is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due suspension of... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1835 - 392 pages
...stuft', and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — Lord Bacon — Proficiency and Advancement of Learning. "The schoolmen's waste of ingenuity and... | |
 | William Gray - English literature - 1835 - 122 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no " the fleshly-minded .hypocrites had lost thejr juggling terms, wherewith they imposed on, and misled,... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness...thread and work, but of no substance or profit."* In other times, the grand attempt to repress the right of free discussion has been by laws of censorship... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...in the subject itself that they handle, when it is fruitless speculation, or controversy, whereof there are no small number both in divinity and philosophy... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or pro6t. and English philosophers took the contagion : and the Muse of science condescended to seek admission... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed, cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. "-f- Raised up at a time when true Realism had not only been banished from the schools, but a pseudo-ideal... | |
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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... 
