 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
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1884 - 225 pągines
...them, to guard against the intrusion of scholastic notions into the field of fact. " The wit and n>ind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation...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... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1884 - 408 pągines
...wide circumference of its interests. * Vera sum,' is its language, ' nihilverum a me alienum puto.' ' The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter which...the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh accord* ing to the stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon ' itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 680 pągines
...on Natural History, his ' History of Creatures.' And Bacon says (Adv. of Learning, ''4,1 5, P-32); 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. Credence, sb. This word,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 376 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 289 pągines
...effect as the work of the more popular of the logical positivists and semanticists of the 1930's: ' "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 forth... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 696 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 a Ie ratiocination not modified by the humble observation... | |
 | Alan J. Holland - 1985 - 335 pągines
...observations of experience" - they have speculated in the absence of observation, which is always disastrous: 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 is it endless, and brings... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 316 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... | |
 | Brian Lawn - 1993 - 176 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 forth... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 411 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 . . . worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
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