 | Theodore Parker - 1856 - 412 pàgines
...disturber and innovator." And still further. " Their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 pàgines
...formerly used freely for every thing created, — as when Bacon says (Advance. of Learning, B. »'.), " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby;" or as it is written in our authorized version of the Scriptures (1 Tim. iv. 4), " Every creature of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pàgines
...cells of monasteries and colleges,) and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out oVno great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, i worketh according to the stuff, and is limited I thereby ; bat if it work upon itself, as the spider... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pàgines
...history of nature and times, they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pàgines
...history of nature and times, they, with infinite agitation of wit, spun out of a small quantity of matter those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the human mind, if it acts upon matter and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 pàgines
...to speculation as a guide, he became weak as other men. " For," again to use the words of Bacon, " the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the 1 Of the Proficience and Advance- 1833. T. 171 ment of Learning. By Francis, Lord '•' Adams' Hippoc.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pàgines
...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 uuto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of man,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pàgines
...were 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...webs of learning which are extant in their books. 3 For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 pàgines
...his Sabhath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit;" or (Advance, of Learning, B. £.), " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which...worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ;" or as it is written in our authorized version of the Scriptures (1 Tim. iv. 4), " Every creature... | |
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... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were 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... 
