 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 170 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.  The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one - Seite 97von Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 280 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 Seiten
...My Lord Bacon, in one of his essays, has admirably stated this absurdity in metaphysical studies: " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; if it work upon itself, as the spider * See A. Chalmers's Bios;raph. 128 worketh his web, then it... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 Seiten
...world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient (n) See note B. at the end, p. [iv.J ' (o) The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...work upon itself, ' as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings ' forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of '... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 Seiten
...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...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, workcth according to the stuff, and is limited thereby : but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | 1832 - 698 Seiten
...matter and infinite igiulion of wit, spin out into those laborious webs of learning which are eiunt in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which a the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the staff, and ii limited thereby... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 Seiten
...happiness." much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil.* PHILOSOPHISING AND THEORISING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - 124 Seiten
...lime, 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...it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, ihen it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1835 - 392 Seiten
...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...of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuft', and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...so much corrupt manners as those that are half good and half evil." PHILOSOPHIZING AND THEORIZING. THE wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of * Coleridge, in his Aids to Reflection, says, " Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 Seiten
...Applcton & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 434. 1860.J Notices of Books. 215 noticed by Lord B.icon of the schoolmen. "For the wit and mind of man if it work upon matter" — (the matter of the theologian being the Scriptures) — " worketh according to the stuff, and is... | |
 | 1837 - 548 Seiten
...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...according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it w6rk upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth VOL. IX. No. 26.... | |
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