 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins;...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins;...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 maiters, and to call upon... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 pages
...the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins;...so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematies, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - Mathematics - 1854 - 156 pages
...coherence all along." [Locke, Introduction to the conduct of the Human Understanding, Bk. 4, Sec. 7. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, vif his wit be called away ever J so little, he must begin again." — [Lord Bacon. " The habits of... | |
 | 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
...in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as disease of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins,...stomach, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...the wit, but may be wrought4 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... | |
 | 1856 - 444 pages
...existence." If this be true for languages, how much more so is it for mathematics ! Bacon has well said : " if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics;...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... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXLIIL If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for...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... | |
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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. 
