 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 páginas
...wit, but may be wrought " out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have ap" propriated exercises : bowling is good for the stone and " reins;...be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in de" monstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he " must begin again; if his wit be not... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 páginas
...wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; walking is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the...riding for the head, and the like ; so if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for, in demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXLIII. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. exLm. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Boom. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 páginas
...reasonable creatures." — Conduct of the Undemtanding. Lord Bacon is much more precise on this head. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again." — Essays. VOL. in. 25 gebraico quam nostro... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 páginas
...doctrine of the mathematics : mathematician, he who studies or is a proficient in them. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never BO little, he must begin again. Bacon, The malJicmaticlu and the metaphysicks Kail to them, as you... | |
 | 1832 - 670 páginas
...and the like : so if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstration, if his wit be called away never so little, he must...again : 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 upon... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 páginas
...Duke of Glou cester, 1640, Oatlandt. If a man's wits be wandering let him study the mathernaticks ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. Bacon. <Dbit8 of the Latin Church. St. Procopius, Martur at Cat,larea, in Palestine, 303. Sts. Kilian,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...the wit, but may i>« wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins,...riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 páginas
...remedy was suggested to the philosopher, by the sagacious counsel of his great predecessor : . . * If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics : for, in demonstration, if a man's wit be carried away never so little, he must begin again.'— LORD BACON,... | |
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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. 
