 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
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 315 pages
...peremptory reduction of knowledge " into arts a, d methods : which, once done, sciences <c commonly receive small or no augmentation. For " as young men, when they knit and s'.ape perfectly, " do seldom grow to a farther stature ; so knowledge, " while it is dispersed in... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816
...ledge into arts and methods : which once done, " sciences commonly receive small or no augmen" tation. For as young men, when they knit and " shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a farther " stature ; so knowledge, while it is dispersed in " aphorisms and observations, may grow and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
...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... | |
 | Books - 1821
...cannot be made but out of the pyth and heart of sciences : for illustration and excussion are cut off; variety of examples is cut off; deduction and connexion...and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once enteredand comprehended in methods, it may, perchance, be farther polished and fashioned and accommodated... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821
...delivery is more fit to win consent or belief; but less fit to point to action ; for they carry • ihew of demonstration in orb or circle, one part illuminating...fashioned and accommodated for use and practice, but increasetb no more in bulk and substance." Hia opinion of the use of ornament for philosophical composition... | |
 | English literature - 1821
...rendered stationary ' by its over-early and peremptory reduction into arts' (ie systems) ' and methods ; 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... | |
 | 1821
...stationary ' by its over-earl^ and peremptory reduction into arts' (»'. e. systems) ' and methods ; 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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1824
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...weighty and solid. 4. The over early and peremptory reduction of knowledge into arts and methods .48 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 owe is comprehended in exact... | |
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