 | 206 pages
...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, for in...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 - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...Southey, Coleridge, Dennie, Ames, Wirt, Channing.* 5. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for...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... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...GEOMETRY. BY ROBERT POTTS, TRIN. COLL., CAMBRIDGE. " IF a man's wit be wandering," says Lord Bacon, "let him study the mathematics ; for, in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again." The noble and learned lord (to use a Parliamentary phrase) might have written at greater length respecting... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...studies. Like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle...like. So if 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.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shootingt 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... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Bible - 1847 - 334 pages
...and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for*the head and the like ; BO if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Bible - 1847 - 334 pages
...wandering, let him study tlie mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be railed away never 90 little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt...or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; if he be not apt to bent over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differenceSj let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises : bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle...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 called away never... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like; so, if a man's wit beju)t apt to distinguisli or jind TTOference?, let him stud) the schoolmen, fof'thfj^re^^Cymini' Befitores... | |
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... let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences," let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' cymini sectores ;" if he... 
