 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 380
...solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms : so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little further on, he adds — " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school -men to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 374
...solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms : so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little further on, he adds — " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school -men to... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - Страниц: 408
...their books. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon itself, brings forth, indeed, cob-- webs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." . Little attention seems to hare been paid to classical learning at this period. It is conjectured... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 372
...spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admitable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." And a little further on, he adds — " Notwithstanding, certain it is, that if those school-men to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 432
...solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. '- The same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ;\(either in the subject itself that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 524
...solid, do putrify and corrupt into worms ; so it is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrify and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance OT profit. This same unprofitable subtilty or curiosity is of two sorts ; either in the subject itself... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - Страниц: 524
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; if it work upon itself, as the spider * See A.Chalmers's Biograph. worketh hi.s web, then it is endless, and brings forth,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Milton has made metaphysics the idle sport of the fallen angels : Others apart, sate on a hill retirM.... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - Страниц: 492
...stuff, and is limited thereby ; if it work upon itself, as the spider * See A. Chalmers's Bios;raph. 128 worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Milton has made metaphysics the idle sport of the fallen angels : Others apart, sate on a hill retir'd,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - Страниц: 536
...the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, ' as the spider worketh his web, ihcn it is endless, and brings ' forth indeed cobwebs of...• thread and work, but of no substance or profit.' — Q. Does the knowledge of a country ever rise higher than its metaphysics ? — L'homme n'est que... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - Страниц: 784
...either of nature or time, 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."(a) (a) See the Advancement of Learning, under Contentious Learning. See Gibbon's Memoirs.... | |
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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 matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious... 
