 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...  The Retrospective Review.. - Page 148edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 i£ is 'in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it ouce is comprehended in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...weighty and solid. 4. The over early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arta and methods 173 As young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a furl her stature ; to knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ,- but... | |
 | 1867 - 696 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 it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | George Johnston - 1850 - 634 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 His views were higher, and his researches were pushed in the only direction in which they could be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...it seems, to consist: but the Novutn Organum is not thus treated. To system Bacon was not attached : for " As young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to ai farther stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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 farther stature : so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1851 - 262 pages
...discoveries, and, in the end of a scientific moral system. " As young men," to use the words of Bacon, " when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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 it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...it seems, to consist : but the Novum Organum is not thus treated. To system Bacon was not attached : for " As young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a farther stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 502 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 it is once comprehended in exact... | |
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