| George McDonald - 1927 - 428 pages
...NEST-BUILDING. If you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it U not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots, that must work it. LORD BACON'S Advaiuxment of Learning, b. ii IN a short time Harry's health was so much improved, and... | |
| 1921 - 524 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots that must work it." § History shows that the greatest periods in the life of a University and its professional schools... | |
| United States. General Accounting Office - 1973 - 498 pages
...long ago : " If you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots that must work it." " So far we have been speaking of studies which go only to the formation of a proper attitude toward... | |
| A. C. Crombie - 1990 - 534 pages
...which men could specialize in particular sciences and earn a proper living. This state of affairs « hath not only had a malign aspect and influence upon...sciences, but hath also been prejudicial to states and governmentsi> 24. In fact, Bacon's blunt appraisal remained largely applicable down to the university... | |
| Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...deeper of. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it has used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth, and putting richer mold about the roots, that must work it. Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedication... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...324, 'For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not any thing you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots that must work it.' The context clearly supports the correction, however: such trees will survive the English weather only... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...passage.0 For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not any thing you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...forgotten that this dedicating of foundations and dotations0 to professory0 learning hath not only had a malign aspect and influence0 upon the growth... | |
| Simon Somerville Laurie - 1899 - 296 pages
...passage. For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...forgotten, that this dedicating of foundations and ditations to professory learning hath not only had a malign aspect and influence upon the growth of... | |
| 1901 - 1370 pages
...passage; for if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the...putting new mould about the roots that must work it." I do not look to the legislature to supply this deficiency. Other demands, m^-Q immediate and urgent... | |
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