 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...  The Collected Works of ... P. ... - Page 215de Theodore Parker - 1864Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Gray - 1835 - 122 pages
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or 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 books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 pages
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ihen 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 their juggling terms, wherewith they imposed on, and misled,... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nation or 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 books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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 substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts : either in the subject itself that they... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or 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 books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 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
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or 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 books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pages
...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 substance or profit." '}' Raised up at a time when true Realism had not only been banished from the schools, but a pseudo-ideal... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...philosophizing in general, that of the Materialists and the Spiritualists, to use these terms. The one is perhaps most ably represented in the Novum Organum... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 pages
...happens to differ, he is presently reprehended as a disturber and innovator." And still farther. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for tbe fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." There are two methods of philosophizing... | |
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