 | Jonathan Swift - 1705 - 342 pages
...underflood by the wife man's Rule of Regarding the End. Thus are the Sciences found like Hercules* Oxen, by tracing them Backwards, Thus are old Sciences unravelled like old Sttckings, by beginning at the Foot. BESIDES all this, the Army of the Sciences hath been of late with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 242 pages
...regarding the End Thus are the Sciences found, like Hercules's Oxen, by tracing them taciwara ' !. Thus are old Sciences unravelled like old Stockings,...of the Sciences hath been of late, with. a World of martia.1 Difcipline, drawn into its clofe Order ; fo that a View or a Mufter may be taken of it with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...understood, by the wise man's rule, of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Hercules's •oxen, by tracing them backwards. Thus are old sciences...unravelled, like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Beside all this, the army of the sciences has been of late, with a world of martial discipline, drawn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Hercules's oxen, fay tracing them backward*. Thus are old sciences unravelled, like old stockings, by beginning, at the foot. Beside all this, the army of the sciences has been of hite, with a world of martial discipline, drawn... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...understood by the wise man's rule, of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backwards. Thus are old sciences...unravelled, like old stockings, by beginning at the foot." TO TH« «*ITORS OF THB ANTHOLOGY. GENTLEMEN, IN the Retrospective Review, where such a particular... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterivek - 1810 - 492 pages
...underftood by the Wife Man's Rule of; Regarding the End. Thus arc the Sciences found- like Hercules's Oxen, by tracing them backwards. Thus are/ old Sciences...old •'• ''Stockings, by beginning at the Foot. . S3om£nbe b. fu-fy. Ш in &. adfjfj.^aljrf). 231 llnterroeifung bet 3)omeflifen (Directions to Servants)... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - 1810 - 500 pages
...underftood by the Wife Man"» Rule ofi Regarding the End. Thus are the Sciences found like Hercules's Oxen , by tracing them backwards. Thus are old Sciences unravelled like old Stocking! , by beginning at the Foot. llnterroeifting bec ÎDomefHfen (Diredioni to Servants) wegen... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - 1811 - 390 pages
...understood by the wise man's rule of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backwards. Thus are old sciences unravelled like old stockings, by beginnmg at the foot. Besides all this, the army of the sciences hath been of late, with .a world of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 356 pages
...understood, by the wise man's rule, of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Herculeg'g OSKO, by tracing them backwards. Thus are old sciences unravelled, like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Beside all this, the army of the sciences has been of late, with a world of martial discipline, drawn... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 442 pages
...understood, by the wise man's rule, of regarding the end. Thus are the sciences found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backwards. Thus are old sciences...unravelled, like old stockings, by beginning at the foot. Beside all this, the army of the sciences has been of late, with a world of martial discipline, drawn... | |
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... only what comes from behind. Thus men catch knowledge by throwing their wit on the posteriors of a book, as boys do sparrows with flinging salt upon their tails. Thus human life is best understood by the wise man's rule of regarding the end. Thus... 
