 | John Ford - 1915 - 360 pages
...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 forth...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Bacon's Works, London, 1902, pp. 242-243. 163, i. I '11 have that window . . . dam'd up. The parallelism... | |
 | John Favata Bruno - Ethics, Modern - 1916 - 282 pages
...insignificant part of the whole world. Moreover, "if the mind of man works upon itself, as the spider works his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed,...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance and profit." 2 Can the layman, therefore, be blamed for looking at philosophy as an idle study? What... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - History, Modern - 1918 - 842 pages
...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 forth,...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." — Sir Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, IV, 5. As illustration of the errors into which men... | |
 | Lina Kahn - 1918 - 84 pages
...insignificant part of the whole world. Moreover, "if the mind of man works upon itself, as the spider works his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed,...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance and profit." 2 Can the layman, therefore, be blamed for looking at philosophy as an idle study? What... | |
 | Lina Kahn - 1918 - 84 pages
...insignificant part of the whole world. Moreover, "if the mind of man works upon itself, as the spider works his web, then it is endless, and brings forth, indeed,...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance and profit." 2 Can the layman, therefore, be blamed for looking at philosophy as an idle study? What... | |
 | China - 1921 - 516 pages
...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 forth indeed cobwebs...the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance and * Hall, History of Ethics within Organized Christianity, p. 334. — 196 — profit." The condition... | |
 | Paull Franklin Baum - English language - 1922 - 236 pages
...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 forth...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. Advancement of Learning, Bk. I, iv, 5. ENGLISH VERSIFICATION time ever since, the sad friends of Truth,... | |
 | Walter Arensberg - Acrostics - 1922 - 314 pages
...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 Forth...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." Read the capitalised acrostic letters: I, F. BACON. Page 286— "upon every particular position or... | |
 | George Burton Adams - Civilization, Medieval - 1922 - 478 pages
...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 forth,...fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit."—Advancement of Learning, IV, 5. To hold up certain absurdities of scholasticism to ridicule,... | |
 | Laurence Ladd Buermeyer, Laurence Buermeyer - Thought and thinking - 1923 - 372 pages
.... 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 forth...of thread and work, but of no substance or profit." 1 A statute or a decision to be effective, must be generally consistent with traditional principles:... | |
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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... 
