 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 sivua
...contest, instantly started from his reverie, wheeled about and answered, " Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sivua
...contest, instantly started from his reverie, wheeled about and answered, " Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 sivua
...SECTION II. HOW TO ACQUIRE A FACILITY OF REFERENCE. " Knowledge is of two kinds," said Dr. Johnson ; " we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." This is especially applicable to the study and practice of the law : for in the vast multiplicity of... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 sivua
...have such a desire to look at the backs of books." " Sir," replied Johnson, "the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 sivua
...backs of books.' Johnson, ever ready for contest, instantly answered, ' Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do, is to know what books have treated... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 sivua
...such a desire to look at the backs of books." " Sir," replied Johnson, " the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 sivua
...guch a desire to look at the backs of books." " Sir," replied Johnson, " the reason is very plain. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. When we inquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated... | |
 | 1865 - 484 sivua
...of God "), he consciously, or unconsciously, works daily toward the ideal type of human existence. " Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where to find information upon it." The physician must not only possess the two kinds of knowledge — he... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 sivua
...vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Bosweirs Life of Johnson. An. 1763. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,...or we know where we can find information upon it. ibid. An. 1775. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is... | |
 | Archibald Brown, Friedrich Carl von Savigny - 1872 - 192 sivua
...collectively in the Appendix. " We cannot close this review of Mr. Copinger*s publication better lhan with the apt quotation with which he inaugurates it:...or we know where we can find information upon it.' " — Law Journal. PRINCIPLES OP EQUITY. Just published, in 8vo. (i872), price l&s., cloth, THE PRINCIPLES... | |
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 
