 | Theodore Parker - Unitarianism - 1856 - 432 pages
...cells of a few authors, 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." There are two methods of philosophizing in general, that of the Materialists and the Spiritualists;... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Unitarianism - 1856 - 472 pages
...cells of a few authors, 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." . There are two methods of philosophizing in general, that of the Materialists and the Spiritualists,... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 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." Or, yet more, of those intricate and ingenious calculations, "quaint opinions wide," formerly made... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal pretttnew. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. w This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1860 - 812 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 uo substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PAET I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OE... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...cells of monasteries and colleges, and who, knowing little history either of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." k He paid due homage to the gigantic intellect of the " Dictator ; " but he ridiculed the unfruitfulness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endiess, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little further on, he adds—" Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school-men, to their... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...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, but of no substance or profit. 4. Unprofitable curiosity is of two sorts 171 1. Fruitless speculation. 2. Erroneous modes of investigation.... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 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. — ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint... | |
 | Christianity - 1860 - 514 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, there it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or prnfit.' ' But still grinder is the following, which, though in some degree anticipated in certain... | |
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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... 
