 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...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Pągina 49per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 460 pągines
...unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." And then he adds : " Fur the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation cf thc creutures of GoJ, workoth according to the stuff, § 6. It has indeed been said (by Cardinal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 515 pągines
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 641 pągines
...last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the ereatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. — Adv. of Learning, Bk.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 225 pągines
...to distinguish them, to guard against the intrusion of scholastic notions into the field of fact. " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...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... | |
 | George Burton Adams - 1883 - 142 pągines
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | 1883 - 459 pągines
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884
...agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 680 pągines
...on Natural History, his 'History of Creatures? And Bacon says (Adv. of Learning, I- 4, § 5, P- 32); The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby. Credence, sb. This word, which was formerly in as common use as ' credit,' which has superseded... | |
 | 1843
...of the great principle Similia similibus, and remind him of the saying of the modern Plato— " That the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...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... | |
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