| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 páginas
...collect and use : the reasoners resemble / f spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its...philosophy ; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on thejjowfiis of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical... | |
| Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 páginas
...only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own." Herein is wisdom. And in the application... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 páginas
...colleet and use ; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But tho bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true busincss of philosophy. It is happily a rare mode of assailing the reputation of a writer, to paraphrase... | |
| 1870 - 974 páginas
...only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its...philosophy ; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the power of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical... | |
| 1870 - 492 páginas
...takes a middle course ; it gathers ite material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, hut transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not...philosophy ; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the power of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical... | |
| Birmingham Speculative Club - 1870 - 320 páginas
...they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business... | |
| George Sexton - 1880 - 176 páginas
...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests them by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy."* And it is this true principle of philosophy that must be followed in discussing the question before... | |
| George Sexton - 1880 - 176 páginas
...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests them by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy."* And it is this true principle of philosophy that must be followed in discussing the question before... | |
| Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 254 páginas
...the existence of Antipodes, reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true mode in which philosophy works. For it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind,... | |
| Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 222 páginas
...the existence of Antipodes, reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But- the bee takes, a, middle course; it gathers its material from tte 'flowers of the 'giarden and of the field, but transforms a.6d': digest* ;ifr by, a, po^er" of... | |
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