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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 2
by Francis Bacon - 1850
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin...study the schoolmen, for they are "cymini sectores ; "i if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...wit be called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or 6nd differences,* let him study the schoolmen, for they...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANT1THETA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTRA. " Lectio est conversatio cum prüden- " Quœ unquam are docnit tempcshtibus...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...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...if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases: so every defect of...
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The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the ...

Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pages
...be not apt to distinguish or find differences', let him study the disputations of the schoolmen' ; if he be not apt to beat over matters', and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. » LESSON XXV. THE TWO WEAVERS. K AH MOBE. [This excellent and accomplished person, who was born in...
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The School board readers. Standard i(iii-vi), ed. by a former H.M ..., Volume 6

School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...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...differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are hairsplitters; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...like; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin...and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases—so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANTITHETA ON STUDIES. PRo. CONTBA....
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Masterpieces in English Literature, and Lessons in the English Language ...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...like. So, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin...to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prave and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have...
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Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...like. So, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin...differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are " Cyniini sectores." If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and...
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Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...like. So, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, 33 for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin...or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, 34 for they are " cumini sectores;"~ :& if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature

Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,5 let him study the schoolmen, for they are 'cymini...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. • ANTITH2TA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTRA. " Lectio est con versatio cum pruden- " Quce . unqnam ars docuit...
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