 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 away...  Essays moral, economical and political - Page 166by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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, shooting...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 ; shooting...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...may be wrought out by fit studies : like as " diseases of the body may have appropriate exer" cises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, " shooting...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...may be wrought out by fit studies: like as " diseases of the body may have appropriate exer" cises; bowling is good for the stone and reins, " shooting...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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 ; shooting...breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the bead, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...may be wrought " out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have ap" propriated exercises : bowling is good for the stone and " reins; shooting...stomach; riding for the head, and the like; so if a man's " wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in de" monstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...Mathesis is the doctrine of the mathematics : mathematician, he who studies or is a proficient in them. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics...in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never BO little, he must begin again. Bacon, The malJicmaticlu and the metaphysicks Kail to them, as you... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...creatures." — Conduct of the Undemtanding. Lord Bacon is much more precise on this head. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again." — Essays. VOL. in. 25 gebraico quam nostro... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...exercises : bowling is good fur the stone ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for tke stomach ; riding for the head, and the like : so if...wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstration, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...but may be wrought ooi by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; he mystery was explained ; and it turned out that...than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and int matkematicks, for on demonstrations, if his wit be culled away never so little, he must begin again... | |
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