 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - Liczba stron: 438
...little history, either of nature or •did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite ___agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of ,, jio substance or profit. \ 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - Liczba stron: 378
...seeks to deduce all truth from the inner resources of the mind. " The wit and mind of man," he says, " if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." While not indifferent to graces of style, Bacon criticised the excessive humanistic tendency of his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - Liczba stron: 878
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - Liczba stron: 882
...dirttmpers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1888 - Liczba stron: 714
...but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forward, indeed, cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." How could the study of groups be either easier or more satisfactory than that of individual man ? The... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - Liczba stron: 306
...either of nature or time, 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." * Translation from his father's house, from conversation with a mother who employed her learning and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Liczba stron: 304
...effect as the work of the more popular of the logical positivists and semanticists of the 1930's: ' "For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...of thread and work but of no substance or profit." The Advancement of Learning is in two books : the first states and answers arguments that have been... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - Liczba stron: 746
...understanding which exists among scientists of all nations. c Cf. the words of TH Huxlev quoted on p. 61. worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of neither substance nor profit.* The association between nature-mysticism and science is therefore to... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - Liczba stron: 364
...stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then is it endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This is the Bacon with which we are all familiar. But the other side of his work is too often, as by Williams,... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - Liczba stron: 330
...solid do putrify and corrupt into worms; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a... | |
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Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut 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... 
