 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 páginas
...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 forth,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Or, yet more, of those intricate and ingenious calculations, "quaint opinions wide," formerly made... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 páginas
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...but of no substance or profit This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 páginas
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettiness. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is a... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 páginas
...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 forth...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of uo substance or profit." — Bacon's Adv. of Learning. EIIEA HTEPOENTA, PAET I. TO THE UNIVERSITY OE... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 páginas
...distempers of learning, being, as well aa the other, a kind of hunting after words and M-rhal prettinera. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 282 páginas
...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 forth...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... | |
 | John Scott - 1860 - 278 páginas
...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 forth...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... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 páginas
...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 forth,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 páginas
...distempers of learning, being, as well as the other, a kind of hunting after words and verbal prettineu. endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...but of no substance or profit This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 páginas
...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 forth...of no substance or profit. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself that they handle, when it is... | |
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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... 
