...school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading f but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few...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...

...putrify and corrupt into worms, so it is the propriety of good and sound knowledge to putrify and to dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome,...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...

...wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, (but their * You possess no sanctity. wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors,...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...

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...putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermicufate questions ; which have, indeed, a kind of quickness...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...

...monasteries and colleges — and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of the great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of...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...

...extensive to all knowledge : " Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientice." worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider...

...are well portrayed by Lord Bacon, in reference to the " Schoolmen," before his time, who, he says, " shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges,...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...

...out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborjous r them; and, because these cunning men aro like haberdashers...\EarfiS, it is not amiss to set forth their shop. worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider...

...time, did, out of no great quantity o'f matter, and infmite agitation of Wit, fpin out unto us thofe laborious Webs of Learning, which are extant in their...which is the contemplation of the creatures of GOD, worketh according to the ftuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itfelf, as the Spider...