| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1884 - 512 pages
...original reflection more, than a work finished in all its parts and details. " For," says Lord Bacon, " as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...knowledge into arts and methods ; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...a river, that beareth up things light and swolne, and drownes things waighty and solide.' [32, 33] So knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : Another instance of the same construction as has been noticed before, p. 20, 11. 26, 27; p. 39, 11.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...knowledge into arts and methods ; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary style - 1890 - 304 pages
...no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth, but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and accommodated for... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary style - 1890 - 328 pages
...knowledge into arts and methods ; from which time, commonly, sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth, but when... | |
| Theophilus Bulkeley Hyslop - Brain - 1895 - 620 pages
...and accommodating it with some circumstances and directions to practise" ; and he further notes, that "as young men when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and in observations, it is in growth; but when... | |
| Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...knowledge into arts and methods ; from which time commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms . and observations, it is in growth ; but when... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 216 pages
...no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be 30 further polished and illustrate, and... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 216 pages
...into arts and methods; from which time, commonly, sci- 25 ences receive small or no augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow / to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when... | |
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