 | Willis Mason West - 1903 - Liczba stron: 756
.... . . 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." — Advnncement o/ Learniny. With all its fanlts, however, scholasticism was the first effort of the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1904 - Liczba stron: 442
...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." SPECULATIVE LEARNING. — Bacon found fault with a priori or speculative philosophy, which seeks to... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1904 - Liczba stron: 444
...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." SPECULATIVE LEARNING. — Bacon found fault with a priori or speculative philosophy, which seeks to... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Liczba stron: 304
...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." 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
...the words of TH Huxlev quoted on p. 61. worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, 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
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then is it endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of 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... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - Liczba stron: 330
...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... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - Liczba stron: 736
...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." Sooner or later the intellect of Europe would burst out of this shell. After a thousand years of tillage,... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - Liczba stron: 436
...if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its 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... | |
 | Brian Lawn - 1993 - Liczba stron: 194
...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".8 One is reminded of the words of the twelfth-century fitienne de Tournai, quoted earlier,... | |
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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... 
