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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,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page xxv
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social ...

Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1866 - 594 pages
...partitions of knowledge," says Lord Bacon, "are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a...and quantity of entireness and continuance before it comes to discontinuance and break itself into arms and boughs ; therefore," as he continues, " it is...
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With ...

William Fleming - Philosophy - 1867 - 700 pages
...admit* the advantage, if not the validity, of a higher mdaphysic than this. " Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet In one angle, and so touch hut in a point, but are like branches of a tree that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 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...like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath__a_diEJensioji _,and quantity of entireness and continuancjeuJbsfore. .it come to discontinue...
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Thoughts, philosophical and medical, selected from the works of Francis ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...to that " philosophia prima — primitive or summary philosophy," which, like the stem of a tree, " before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs," is common to all the sciences. PS — In the llth volume of Lord Bacon's Works (the 4th of his Letters...
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The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental ...

Henry Charles Carey - Social Science - 1872 - 476 pages
...knowledge," says Lord Bacon in his Novum Organum, " are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree...and quantity of entireness and continuance before it comes to discontinuance and break itself into arms and boughs; therefore," as he continues, " it is...
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Penn Monthly, Volume 3

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pages
...knowledge," says Lord Bacon in his Novum Organum, "are not like several lines that meet in one angle, &s\d touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a...and quantity of entireness and continuance before it comes to discontinuance and break itself into arms and boughs; therefore," as he continues, " it is...
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Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social ...

Henry Charles Carey, Kate McLean - Economics - 1872 - 584 pages
...partitions of knowledge," says Lord Bacon, "are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree...and quantity of entireness and continuance before it comes to discontinuance and break itself into arms and boughs ; therefore," as he continues, "it is...
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Fourteenth century to the French revolution, with a glimpse into the ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy - 1873 - 744 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- Tie nuoKness and continuance before it come to discontinue and break ')A<a /v"""itself into...
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A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences: (Including the Vocabulary of ...

Charles Porterfield Krauth - Philosophy - 1881 - 1080 pages
...the advantage, if not the validity, of a higher metapJiysic than this. " Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...itself into arms and boughs; therefore, it is good to erect and constitute one universal science by the name of ' philosopfria prima,' primitive or sum*...
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Bacon

Thomas Fowler - Philosophy - 1881 - 222 pages
...briefly to notice Bacon's conception of what he calls Primary Philosophy.4 " Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and eontinuance before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs ; therefore it is good,...
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