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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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Fourteenth century to the French Revolution, with a glimpse into the ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - Fathers of the church - 1882 - 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- The PMIMOness and continuance before it come to discontinue and break t*a Pnmaitself into arms...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...J this triple character, of the power of God, the difference ' of nature, and the use of man.\ But because the distribu- -"• tions and partitions of...which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and*continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness anil continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs ; therefore it...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 55

Religion - 1891 - 624 pages
...footsteps of nature treading or printing upon several subjects or matters. * * * Because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in an angle, but are like branches of a tree that meet in a stem, which hath dimension and quantity of...
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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 pages
...character, of the power of God, the difference of nature, and the use or man. But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines...in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of eutireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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...before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms-1 and boughs ; therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and...
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Progress of Science in the Century

John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1903 - 582 pages
...science, but it is interesting (as Karl Pearson points out) to notice the suggestion that " 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." Auguste Comte ( 1798-1 857) recognised...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 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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The Advancement of Learning, Book 2

Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 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...it come to discontinue and break itself into arms t and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

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...
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