| American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering let him study the mathematics...; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering let him study the mathematics...; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...walking for the stomach ; riding for the head and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be...or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are " Cymini sectores." If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; so if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for...little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt t» distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' Cymini sectores ;'... | |
| 1839 - 736 pages
...remedy was suggested to the philosopher, by the sagacious counsel of his great predecessor: — " ' If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics : for, in demonstration, if a man's wit be carried away never so little, he must beyin again.'" Lord Bacon's... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics...or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are" Cymini sectores;"* if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to... | |
| 1847 - 720 pages
...are ours — instruments and results are with God ! WS I*' a man's wits be wandering let him study mathematics ; for, in demonstrations, if his wit be...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Bacon. No man can have religion without mixing some prospect or advantage with it ; nor can we... | |
| 206 pages
...respects, let him regulate his studies accordingly : for instance, as Bacon says in his Essay on Study, " if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics,...called away, never so little, he must begin again, &c. so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt." The mind, by being constantly exercised,... | |
| Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 pages
...Walter Scott, Southey, Coleridge, Dennie, Ames, Wirt, Channing.* 5. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics...called away never so little, he must begin again." — BACON. " As tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
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