 | George Lillie Craik - 1869 - 374 pages
...his Sabbath 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 is the contemplation of the creatures of God, work-, eth according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; " or as it is written in our authorized... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...wide circumference of its interests. ' Vera sum,' is its language, ' nihil verum a me alienum putc. 'The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter '...which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, II 2 ' worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby ; ' but if it work upon itself, as the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...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,...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby.—Adv. of Learning, Bk. I. Works, I IT. 285. ESSAY Vni. p. 85, 1. 3. " Certainly," etc.: Lat.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...of no greatquantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out^untb us those laborious webs of are extant in their books. For the wit and mind of...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and_ brings jbrth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable^ £or^.llie_,fia£fl£SS. of thread and work,... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 pages
...nature or t me, did, out of no great quantity of matter ami infinite agitation of wit, spin out 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...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.... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 768 pages
...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...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 it,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1884 - 472 pages
...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 - 698 pages
...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,... | |
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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 its web, then it is endless, and brings... 
