 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 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,...study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over maiters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So . A judge ought to prepare his way to a just ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not npt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 pages
...coherence all along." [Locke, Introduction to the conduct of the Human Understanding, Bk. 4, Sec. 7. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, vif his wit be called away ever J so little, he must begin again." — [Lord Bacon. " The habits of... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...Dr. Arbiilhnot. If a man's wits be wandering let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstration, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. Mathematics is a ballast for the soul to fix it, not to stall it ; and not to jostle... | |
 | 1855 - 396 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 in...to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. BACON. INVOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores." * If he be not apt to beat... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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 in...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,6 let him study the schoolmen, for they are 'cymini sectores;'7 if he be not apt to beat... | |
 | 1856 - 444 pages
...existence." If this be true for languages, how much more so is it for mathematics ! Bacon has well said : " if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics;...called away never so little, he must begin again." But, while the wits of some of the students are active and attentive, those of others are wandering... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXLIIL If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | 1856 - 600 pages
...few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases. — Sharp's Essays. MATHEMATICS. — If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for...demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, ho must begin again. — Bacon. BODY AND MIND. — As that body is most strong and healthful which... | |
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... 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 never so little, he must begin again:... 
