 ... 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 away never so little, he must begin again:...  Bacon's Essays - Page 74by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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,...sectores;"* if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect... | |
 | Christian education - 1847 - 720 pages
...are ours — instruments and results are with God ! WS I*' a man's wits be wandering let him study mathematics ; for, in demonstrations, if his wit be...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Bacon. No man can have religion without mixing some prospect or advantage with it ; nor can we... | |
 | 206 pages
...studies accordingly : for instance, as Bacon says in his Essay on Study, " if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations,...called away, never so little, he must begin again, &c. so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt." The mind, by being constantly exercised,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...Dennie, Ames, Wirt, Channing.* 5. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations,...called away never so little, he must begin again." — BACON. " As tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 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,...let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' Cymini sectorcs ;' if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate... | |
 | 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,...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | 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...or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; if he be not apt to bent over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | 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,...; " if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases, so every defect... | |
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