 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are " cymini net-tores." J ! From Plato's " Republic " downward various attempts have been made by philosophers in playful earnest... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are Cymini sectores;9 if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. OF PRAISE. PRAISE is the reflection of virtue, but it is as the glass or body which giveth the reflection... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...not apt to distinguish or find difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are Cymini sedores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...cases; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.—Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. 7. Character of King Henry the Seventh. THIS King (to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...schoolmen, for they are 'cymini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. • ANTITH2TA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTRA. " Lectio est con versatio cum pruden- " Quce . unqnam ars docuit... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over§ matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. || * Conversation ; society. 'f- Wit — mind ; AS witan, to know. Present = ready. J Got rid of. §... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...schoolmen, for they are ' cymini scctores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to .prove and illustrate another, let him...lawyers' cases — so every defect of the mind may haye a special receipt. ANTITHETA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTEA. " Lectio est cnnversalio cum pruden- " QHID... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...faults he might be a very good citizen and was certainly an excellent poet. R. PORSON 184. FACTIONS. Many have an opinion not wise; that for a prince to govern his estate 1 , or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect of factions, is a principal... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. 2 If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 1 Studies poss into manners (form character}. Ovid, Her. acv. 83. 3 Dividfr: of cumin seed, hair-splitters.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...who spent their force very much in drawing nice and frivolous distinctions ; or in splitting hairs. if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.6 FRANCIS BACON : 1561-1636. WISDOM DEAELY PUEOHASED. THE British Parliament, in a former session,... | |
 | New Hampshire dept. of publ. instruction - 1877 - 284 pages
...sectores [splitters of cummin, the least seeds] ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt." TAKING UP A NEW SUBJECT. The common, almost universal practice, when a new subject is to be taken up... | |
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... 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 the schoolmen... 
