 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 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 profit.—ADVANCEMENT OP LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - Medicine - 1861 - 546 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 profit."1 The test of true induction is experience ; any proposition concerning matter, which will... | |
 | Sir George Young - Greek literature, Modern - 1862 - 120 pages
...of orthodoxy, the speculators of the middle ages performed such 1 " This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they" (the Schoolmen) "handle, when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy, whereof there are no small... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1864 - 312 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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - Reformation - 1869 - 216 pages
...time, did, out of no great quan" tity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out " laborious cobwebs of learning, admirable for the " fineness...thread and work, but of no substance " or profit." * In this, as in other matters, some change was imperatively needed. It came. It came, as often happens,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that theyuhandle, when it is a ^fruitless speculation or controversy (whereof there are no small number... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Bible - 1870 - 272 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.' And a little farther on, in speaking of those who neglect the contemplation of nature and unduly reverence... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Church and state - 1870 - 700 pages
...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,...thread and work, ' but of no substance or profit. Heraclitus gave a just ' censure, saying " Men sought truth in their own little ' " worlds, and not... | |
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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... 
