 | James Harvey Robinson - 1926 - 680 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. For the wit of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures [that is, creations] of... | |
 | Helen Keller - 1927 - 230 pages
...abundance of leisure, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books." The new thoughts about the Unity of God which Swedenborg offered to replace the old are precious because... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 pages
...interpreted. The wise words of Bacon1 are relevant: 1 Advancement of Learning, First Book, section iv, 5. 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... | |
 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - 1968 - 180 pages
...of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spun out to us those laborious webs of learning which are extant...in their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it works upon matter worketh according to the stuff, but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh... | |
 | Giambattista Vico - 1944 - 260 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." On the other hand, what Bacon said of Luther was true in some degree of all the reformers: "finding... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 pages
...their dictator)., .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.' These 'cobwebs of learning' were admirable for the fineness of their thread, but 'of no substance or... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 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...thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider a Ie ratiocination not modified by the humble observation of nature. Cf. Farrington (14). b A most... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 pages
...authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,... did out of no great quantity of matter spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. 11 And the same image occurs again elsewhere, sufficient to make the intention quite clear. More significant... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 1993 - 436 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...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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 pages
...colleges . . . 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. (Works, 3.285) The same metaphor occurred to Edward Said in the 1980s to describe Foucault's concept... | |
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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... 
