 Bowling is good for the stone and reins; 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...  A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding - Page 184by John Locke - 1849 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 pages
...grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. ... So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...contend: " studiesinfluence the manners ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pages
...logic and rhetoric', able to contend'. Indeed, there is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body may, by appropriate exercises. 7. Bowling'" is good for the back'; shooting'" for the lungs and breast'... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...Abeunt studio, in mores? Nay, there is no stond 6 or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out 7 by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...' Abeunt studia in mores"—nay, there is no stond' or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought 4 out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may...is good for the stone and reins,' shooting for the lunga and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like; so, if a man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...: " Abeunt studio, in mores"2 9 —nay, there is no stond 3 °or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling 3 ' is good for the stone and reins, shooting 32 for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 pages
...disease in the body. — Dr. Whicheote. 364. There is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
..."Abeunt in studia mores"*— nay, there is no stond • or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought7 out by fit 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...able to contend: Abeunt studio, in mores:* nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...contend. " Abeunt stadia in mores." ' Nay, there is no stond 2 or impediment in the wit but may be wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
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