 | Commerce - 1860 - 782 pages
...Bacon who first distinctly announced, that "the distributions and partitions of knowledge are like the branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath...dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance;"* and who laid it down as a rule, " that all partitions of knowledge be accepted rather for lines and... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1860 - 836 pages
...Bacon who first distinctly announced, that " the distributions and partitions of knowledge are like the branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath...dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance;"* and who laid it down as a rule, "that all partitions of knowledge be accepted rather for lines and... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 912 pages
...metaphync than thin. " Heeaunc- the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several linex that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point, but are like branches of a tree Unit meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, |n-fore It... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 710 pages
...admit* the advantage, if not the validity, of a higher melaphysia than this. " Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet In one angle, and go touch but in a point, but are like branches of a tree that meet In a stem, wliich hath n dimension... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 698 pages
...admlU the advantage, if not the validity, of a higher mttaphync than thi». " Becauw the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet In on* angle, and so touch but in a point, but are like branches of a tree that meet In a stem, which... | |
 | Bridget Margaret Sortain - Biography - 1861 - 476 pages
...of God, the difference of nature, andtiw use of man. But because the distributions and partition <* knowledge are not like several lines that meet in...in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entirencsa and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...: 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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy, Modern - 1862 - 710 pages
...nature, and the use of man." Then comes this allimportant passage, " But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...meet in a stem which hath a dimension and quantity of entire- The Phiuaoness and continuance before it come to discontinue and break *"*** Primaitself into... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...character, of the power of God, the difference of nature, and the use of man. But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so O ' touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 528 pages
...: 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... | |
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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,... 
