| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...careful. Id. The king, though no good schoolman, converted one of them by dispute. Bacon. If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen. Id. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...Duke of Glou cester, 1640, Oatlandt. If a man's wits be wandering let him study the mathernaticks ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. Bacon. <Dbit8 of the Latin Church. St. Procopius, Martur at Cat,larea, in Palestine, 303. Sts. Kilian,... | |
| 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 a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstration, if his wit be called away... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...appropriate exercises ; 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 wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...remedy was suggested to the philosopher, by the sagacious counsel of his great predecessor : . . ' If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics: for, in demonstration, if a man's wit be carried away never so little, he must begin again.' — LORD BACON,... | |
| Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...remedy was suggested to the philosopher, by the sagacious counsel of his great predecessor : . . * If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics : for, in demonstration, if a man's wit be carried away never so little, he must begin again.'— LORD BACON,... | |
| Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting, for the lungs and breast; gentle walking, for the stomach ; riding, for the...study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if Ms wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...appropriate exercises ; 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 wits be wandering, let him study the mathematicks, for on demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
| 1835 - 430 pages
...appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, wits be wandering, let him study the matkematicks, for on demonstrations, if his wit be culled away... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1836 - 328 pages
...appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head,...; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let... | |
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