 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...  The Dial - الصفحة 495المحررون: - 1842عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time—did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth cobwebs of learning, admirable indeed for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.'' An Address on the Homoeopathic System of Medicine, read before the Medical and Surgical Society, at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nature or time, did. out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." — Ibid. " If a man... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...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 ,, jio substance or profit. \ 6. This same unprofitable subtility or curiosity is of two sorts ; either... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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." While not indifferent to graces of style, Bacon criticised the excessive humanistic tendency of his... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history either of nature or time, they did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out to us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books.' And thirdly, there was... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...authors, chiefly Aristotle, their dictator. And, knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite...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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