 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...  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 486by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...GEOMETRY. BY ROBERT POTTS, TRIN. COLL., CAMBRIDGE. " IF a man's wit be wandering," says Lord Bacon, "let him study the mathematics ; for, in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again." The noble and learned lord (to use a Parliamentary phrase) might have written at greater length respecting... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Bible - 1847 - 334 pages
...gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for*the head and the like ; BO if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations,...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... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Bible - 1847 - 334 pages
...wandering, let him study tlie mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be railed away never 90 little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; if he be not apt to bent over matters, and to call upon one... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...Dennie, Ames, Wilt, Channing.* 5. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so liltle, he must begin again." — BACON. 11 As tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...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,...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ; " if he be not apt to beat... | |
 | John Doyle (bookseller, New York.) - Booksellers' catalogs - 1848 - 248 pages
...ao& tDork0 on Hare, €nrton0, anir QDut of llje tUati Subjects. " If »man's wits be wandering, let him study the Mathematics; for in demonstrations if his wit be called away never to little, he must begin again." * Mathematics is a ballast for the soul, to fix it, not to stall it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...gentle walking for the stomach, riding fo: the head, and the like; so, if a man's wit bi wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away neve so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be no apt to distinguish or find differences, let... | |
 | John Doyle (bookseller, New York.) - Booksellers' catalogs - 1848 - 246 pages
...«ral. to fix it, not to utall it, nor to jostle out other arts." " If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the Mathematics ; for in demonstrations if his wit be called away sever K little, he mnst begin again." , 2910 ABBOTT (John). Exposition of the Principles of the Hydraulic... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...walking for the stomach.,, riding for the head, and the -like; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations,...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differenceSj let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be...again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores ; if he be not apt to beat over... | |
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