| 1837 - Liczba stron: 1068
...itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed e religion of the people, or to destroy it? In other times, the grand attempt to repress the right of free discussion has been by laws of censorship... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - Liczba stron: 898
...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... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - Liczba stron: 404
...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 - Liczba stron: 244
...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 subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that they... | |
| 1841 - Liczba stron: 500
...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 - Liczba stron: 642
...the 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 the Spiritualists,... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - Liczba stron: 1174
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." The author has a strong faith, indeed, that something mirrht be done OO by somebody in the right direction,... | |
| John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1843 - Liczba stron: 506
...spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth cobwebs of learning, admirable indeed for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." An Address on the Homoeopathic System of Medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society, at... | |
| 1837 - Liczba stron: 548
...itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26. 51 indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."* In other times, the grand attempt to repress the right of free discussion has been by laws of censorship... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - Liczba stron: 672
...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and who, knowing little history either of nature or time, did spin cobwebs of learning admirable...gigantic intellect of the Dictator ; but he ridiculed the of Aristotle, unfruitfulness of his method, which he described as strong for disputations and contentions,... | |
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