 For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level : neither is it possible to discover the more remote, and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.  Edinburgh Medical Journal - Page 10171890Full view - About this book
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 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
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 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
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