 ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the...  Notes and Queries - Page 4691916Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...nativis et adventitiis. De .i nlogia demonstra tionuin. gun, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding' of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...our words, and prescribe it well, Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | William Samuel Cardell - 1825 - 276 pages
...words, and prescribe it well — loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes;* yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...words, and prescribe it well " Lo" quendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ;" yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes" (speak with the vulgar, think with the wise) ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment; so as it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians,... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 pages
...words, and prescribe it well — loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes;— yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement." — Of the Advancement uf Learning. If words shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...words, and prescribe it well, " Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ;" yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1828 - 498 pages
...truth of his own excellent remark, that " although we think we govern our words, yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." His intention of retaining names and discarding things, is, for this reason, a principle more commendable... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 550 pages
...words, and prescribe it well — loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; — yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians,... | |
 | Maynard Davis Richardson, William Gilmore Simms - 1833 - 304 pages
...vulgtis, sentienilutn ut sapien/rv;"' yet eertain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot baek upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So it is almost neeessary in all eontroversies and disputations to imitate t lie wisdom of the mathematieians... | |
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