 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
 | Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...reduction of knowledge into arts and methods, from which time sciences receive small augmentation. 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, is in growth, but when it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | Rev. James Kelly - 1884 - 140 pages
...that opinions which survive the obscurity of former ages are always to be relied on as the best], is the over early and peremptory reduction of knowledge...and observations, may grow and shoot up ; but once enclosed and comprehended in methods, it may perchance be further polished, and illustrated and accommodated... | |
 | 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 it is once comprehended in exact... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 - 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 it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | 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 it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | 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 it once is comprehended in exact... | |
 | 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 it once is comprehended in... | |
 | 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 it once is comprehended in... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
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