 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...censure of the fruitless speculations in which the wit of man, working upon itself, produces co'owebs of learning admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. The third vice or disease of Learning concerns the support of untruth by blind faith in Historical... | |
 | Frank Wilson Blackmar - Civilization - 1896 - 394 pages
...stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Scholasticism, as the first phase of the revival of learning, though overshadowed by tradition and... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...stuff and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." He constantly urged an investigation of nature, whereby philosophy might be planted on a solid foundation... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...of thread and work but of no substance or profit." The Advancement of Learning is in two books : the first states and answers arguments that have been... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - History - 1956 - 746 pages
...scientists of all nations. c Cf. the words of TH Huxlev quoted on p. 61. worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of neither substance nor profit.* The association between nature-mysticism and science is therefore to... | |
 | Alan Holland - History - 1985 - 364 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby: but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then is it endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...thread and work, but of no substance or profit. This is the Bacon with which we are all familiar. But the other side of his work is too often, as by Williams,... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and bringeth forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Sooner or later the intellect of Europe would burst out of this shell. After a thousand years of tillage,... | |
 | Alan Barcan - Educational sociology - 1993 - 436 pages
...stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh its web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...when it is a fruitless speculation or controversy . . . or in the manner or method of handling of a knowledge, which amongst them was this; upon every... | |
 | Brian Lawn - History - 1993 - 194 pages
...stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web then it is endless and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit".8 One is reminded of the words of the twelfth-century fitienne de Tournai, quoted earlier,... | |
 | William Eamon - History - 1996 - 514 pages
...dissolved into useless speculation. Like the spider that works on its own web, traditional philosophy "is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."19 The problem was that philosophy had lost sight of the proper criterion of truth. As in the... | |
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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 his web, then it is endless, and brings... 
