 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 pages
...mathematics ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. COMPOSITION. Write the sixth paragraph carefully. Insert, in brackets, synonymes or equivalents for... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...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...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Essays. P. 26, 1. 11. Quires seems here to have the double sense, referring both to the phut ef singing... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...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...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Essays. P. 26, 1. i1. Quires if,ns here to lsscve the double sense, referring !:,:!. to the place of... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 pages
...apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectares. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Essays. P. 26, 1. n. Quires seems hm to have the double sense, referring ooth to theplace of singing... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1886 - 380 pages
...Riding for the Head; And the like. So if a Man's Wit be Wandering, let him Study the Mathematicks; for, in Demonstrations, if his Wit be called away...him Study the Lawyers Cases. So every Defect of the Minde may have a Speciall Receit."—Bacon, " Of Studies." Neither the Greek philosophers nor Lord... | |
 | William Harold Payne - 1886 - 390 pages
...Apt to distinguish or find differences, let him Study the School-men; For they are Cymini sectorcs. If he be not Apt to beat over Matters, and to call...him Study the Lawyers Cases. So every Defect of the Minde may have a Speciall Receit."—Bacon, " Of Studies." Neither the Greek philosophers nor Lord... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...study the schoolmen, for they are cy-4 mini scctores [hair-splitters1]. If he be not apt to beat ovar matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. II.— OF FRIENDSHIP. i. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...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,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. OF FACTION. 269 LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise — that for a prince to govern his estate,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are ey-4S mini seciores [hair-splitters']. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. IL-OF FRIENDSHIP. i. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 pages
...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,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. i." LI. OF FACTION'. MANY have an opinion not wise — that for a prince to goveen his estate, or for... | |
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... 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 ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study... 
