 | John Scott - 1860 - Liczba stron: 282
...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 profit. — ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint... | |
 | 1860 - Liczba stron: 514
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, there it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or prnfit.' ' But still grinder is the following, which, though in some degree anticipated in certain... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - Liczba stron: 278
...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 profit.—ADVANCEMENT OP LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - Liczba stron: 860
...as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettineu. 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... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - Liczba stron: 546
...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."1 The test of true induction is experience ; any proposition concerning matter, which will... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - Liczba stron: 312
...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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - Liczba stron: 626
...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 spiritualists, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - Liczba stron: 464
...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... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - Liczba stron: 458
...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... | |
 | John Gibson Cazenove - 1869 - Liczba stron: 216
...time, did, out of no great quan" tity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out " laborious cobwebs of learning, admirable for the " fineness...thread and work, but of no substance " or profit." * In this, as in other matters, some change was imperatively needed. It came. It came, as often happens,... | |
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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... 
