| Josiah Miller - 1870 - Liczba stron: 272
...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.' And a little farther on, in speaking of those who neglect the contemplation of nature and unduly reverence... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - Liczba stron: 700
...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...thread and work, ' but of no substance or profit. Heraclitus gave a just ' censure, saying " Men sought truth in their own little ' " worlds, and not... | |
| Virginia - 1873 - Liczba stron: 614
...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." But this criticism from the father of modern science is only deserved, if applied to the exclusive... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - Liczba stron: 660
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - Liczba stron: 782
...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... | |
| Percy Strutt - 1877 - Liczba stron: 480
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh bis 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. " Upon t'.icso intcllectnalists, which are, notwithstanding, taken for the most sublime and divine... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1878 - Liczba stron: 560
...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." And a little farther on he adds : " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those schoolmen, to their... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - Liczba stron: 104
...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... | |
| Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - Liczba stron: 254
...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," B. 1, o. 40. It was against such " subtle, idle, unwholesome, and vermiculate... | |
| Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - Liczba stron: 304
...history, 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... | |
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