 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1896 - 394 pages
...or of 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 books. For the wit and inind of man, if it work upon matter which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...nature or 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 books." — The Advancement of Learning . " It was prettily devised of /Esop, the fly sat upon the axletree... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - 1898 - 328 pages
...nature or 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 books.' ' Much has been talked about the ' intellectual torpor' of the Middle Ages, a phrase which is somewhat... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 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 - 1901 - 606 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 h\iman mind, if it acts upon matter, and contemplates the nature of things, and the works of God, operates... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...way." King Henry VIII., i. 1 (1623). From Bacon " The wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby...as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). 559 CUPID AN INFANT, BLIND, 1. AN INFANT " Therefore is Love... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...or time — did, out of no great 25 quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant...God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited 30 thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider^ worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings... | |
 | George Worley - 1904 - 294 pages
...of nature and times ; they, with infinite agitation and 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... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 540 pages
...nature or 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...but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness... | |
 | William James Heaton - 1910 - 314 pages
...of their monasteries ; 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... | |
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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... 
