 ... 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;...  The Retrospective Review - Page 2851821Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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...if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases ; so every deiect... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...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...to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. nature in detail and in mass:... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...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...matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate speeches are like the high mountains in Ireland, having a dirty bog in the top of them ; the rery ridge... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 582 pages
...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...if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases: so every defect of... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let htm study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores';"...if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases ; so every defect... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 pages
...schoolmen, for they are ' Cymini sectores ;' if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the rnind may have a special receipt *." That the mathematics are pre-eminently calculated to train the... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...for on demonstrations, if his wit be culled 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 seclorea ? if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...for in demonstrations, if Ms 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 school-men, for they are cumini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...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 him...; for they are ' Cymini sectores ' ; if he be not able to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...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 him...; for they are ' Cymini sectores ' ; if he be not able to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study... | |
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