In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be dull,... New Elements of Geometry - Page 70by Seba Smith - 1850 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1801 - 520 pages
...BACON, in his Advancement of Learning: "Pure Mathematics," saith this noble precursor of Newton, " do " remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties ' intellectual. For if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if * too wandering, they fix it;' if too inherent in the sense, ' they abstract... | |
| Thomas Leybourn - 1801 - 480 pages
...BACON, in his Advancement of Learning: "Pure Mathematics," saith this noble precursor of Newton, "-de ** remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
| 1809 - 604 pages
...recommending it to general pursuit, in the words of the illustrious Bacon : " Mathematics do rernecly and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual, For if the wit be dull they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
| 1822 - 582 pages
...; but which we should not have expected in one so well versed in mathematics, which, in general, ' do remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties intellectual.' ' As far,' says he, ' as animals constitute the food of man, its increase must be in the same sort... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...retrograde, by a computation backward from our own times. — His works abound with similar observations. (c) Men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use...intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if two wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...architecture, enginery, and divers others. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use...wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent iu the sense, they abstract... | |
| Peter Nicholson - 1831 - 326 pages
...Bacon, " do remedy and cure many de" fects in the wit and faculties intellectual ; for, if " the wit be dull they sharpen it, if too wandering " they fix it, if too inherent in the sense they abThe extent of this science is so great, that it has been called by way of pre-eminence, " The Great... | |
| 1921 - 472 pages
...architecture, enginery, and divers others. "In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except itbt that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use...wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...retrogrado, by a computation backward from our own times. — His works abound with similar observations. (c) Men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use...intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if two wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...natural philosophy, and is geometry or arithmetic 144 - Pure mathematics cure many intellectual defects. If the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering* they fix it ; iftuo inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a gamt of no use in itself, but... | |
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