 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1816 - 340 pages
...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 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...into arts and methods, which, once done, commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. For as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature : so knowledge, whilst it is dispersed into aphorisms and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once entered and... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...into arts and methods, which, once done, commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. For as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature : so knowledge, whilst it is dispersed into aphorisms and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once enteredand... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...into arts and methods, which, once done, commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. For as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature : so knowledge, whilst it is dispersed into aphorisms and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once entered and... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...into arts and methods, which, once done, commonly sciences receive small or no augmentation. For as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature : so knowledge, whilst it is dispersed into aphorisms and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once entered and... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...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 - 614 pages
...stationary ' by its over-earl^ and peremptory reduction into arts' (ยป'. 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 - 706 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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... | |
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Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction of 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,... 
