 | James Harvey Robinson - 1926 - 680 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. . . . It may be thought a strange and harsh thing that we should at once and with one blow set aside... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 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." The Advancement of Learning is in two books : the first states and answers arguments that have been... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 páginas
...understanding which exists among scientists of all nations. c Cf. the words of TH Huxlev quoted on p. 61. worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of neither substance nor profit.* The association between nature-mysticism and science is therefore to... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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 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... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 436 páginas
...according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs...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... | |
 | Brian Lawn - 1993 - 194 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".8 One is reminded of the words of the twelfth-century fitienne de Tournai, quoted earlier,... | |
 | Paul A. Bové - 1995 - 318 páginas
...Bacon suspects the schoolmen's books reveal that, if the mind works only "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" (III, 285-86). The story is well known: Locke extends Bacon's distrust of "idols of the human mind"... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 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. 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts,- either in the subject itself that... | |
 | Dafydd Gibbon - 1996 - 1278 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. (Ill, 285f.; emphases CS). In the Novum Organum he returns to this metaphorical characterization of... | |
 | Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 páginas
...to be suspected." And again: "For the wit and mind of Man ... if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and brings forth...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance and profit." Like Descartes's vortices. Bacon was particularly contemptuous of Greek philosophy, which... | |
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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... 
