 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...  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - Page 40by Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1860 - 812 pages
...which it was designed to promote. Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, RICHARD TAYLOR. Sept. 29, 1829. 1 " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...us of Bacon's 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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...time ; did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...time, did out oVno great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, i worketh according to the stuff, and is limited I thereby ; bat if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...nature and times, they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.—NOVUM ORGANON. The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...mankind, are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it. — NOVDM ORGANON. The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...nature and times, they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...time ; did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their...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... | |
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