 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...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 49by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...or goodness of quality. This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign among the schoolmen . . . The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...that spin their web out of the substance of their own bowels. " The wit and mind of man," says he, " if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...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... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - Homeopathy - 1843 - 506 pages
...the great principle Similia similibus, and remind him of the saying of the modern Plato— "• That the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...Applcton & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 434. 1860.J Notices of Books. 215 noticed by Lord B.icon of the schoolmen. "For the wit and mind of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it w6rk upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...warmth of human nature, who could help it ? It was an amiable weakness ! PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...terms. ". Strictness of positions. 3. Contentious learning reigned chiefly amongst the schoolmen 170 The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creature* of God, worketh according to the stujf, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
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