 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
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let y to a just differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not npt to beat... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 pages
...riding for the head, and the like ; so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematies, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...Dr. Arbiilhnot. 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 begin again. — Lord Bacon. Mathematics is a ballast for the soul to fix it, not to stall it ; and not to jostle... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...gentle 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 differences, let him study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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 difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores." * If he be not apt to beat... | |
 | India - 1856 - 876 pages
...langunges, how much more so is it for mathematics ! Bacon has well said : " if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again." But, while the wits of some of the students are active and attentive, those of others are wandering... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXI.IU. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. CXI.IV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 600 pages
...alas ! are let on long leases. — Sharp's Essays. MATHEMATICS. — If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, ho must begin again. — Bacon. BODY AND MIND. — As that body is most strong and healthful which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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 differences,6 let him study the schoolmen, for they are 'cymini sectores;'7 if he be not apt to beat... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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, [splitters of hairs.] If he... | |
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