 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...vol. ix, p. 146. " But because the distribution and partitions of knowledge are not like several liues that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point;...and boughs; therefore it is good, before we enter to still better things ; for it is a most miserable condition to be always using the inventions of... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - Quotations, English - 1916 - 540 pages
...plumes of horses in a parade. — ANON. The distributions and partitions of knowledge are . . . like the branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath...discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs. — BACON. Knowledge is like money, — the more a man gets, the more he craves. — JOSH BILLINGS.... | |
 | Walter Arensberg - Acrostics - 1922 - 314 pages
...acrostic letters : F. BACON. Page 346 — "marked and stamped distribution and partitions of knowledge branches of a tree that meet in a stem, which hath...discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs; we enter into the former distribution erect and constitute one by the name" Read the capitalised acrostic... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...natural order and is a prerequisite for the interpretation of natural phenomena: Since the divisions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle; but are rather like branches of a tree that meet in one stem (which stem grows for some distance entire... | |
 | R. Crocker - History - 2001 - 264 pages
...knowledge: knowledge of God, knowledge of Nature, and knowledge of Man, or Humanity. But since the divisions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle; but are rather like branches of a tree that meet in one stem (which stem grows for some distance entire... | |
 | Simone Roggenbuck - Linguistics - 2005 - 396 pages
...dürfe, sondern den Stamm einer universalen prima philosophia darstelle: But because die distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and conrinuance, before it comes to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs; therefore it is... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...divine philosophy, natural philosophy, and human philosophy or humanity. But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem: therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...pcntu." Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge ore not like several lines that meet m one angle, and so touch but in a point ,• but are like branches of a tree, that meet in astern, which hath a dimension and quantity of entirenen and continuance, before it come to discontinue... | |
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But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance,... 
