 | Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...for in demonstrations, if the mind be called away ever so little, he must begin again. If the mind be not apt to distinguish, or find differences, let him study the logicians, for they are "Cyminc sectores ;" able to divide " A hair twixt south and south-west side."... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering,...again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find 1 quot deglutire cursimque legere oportet. 3 eorumque compendin tantum desumere. tpenitue insipidi.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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...So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematicks ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...extinguished which glances contempt on the sacred majesty of religion. If a man's wits be wavering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again. When will men of talent aspire to be but the benefactors of their... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...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...let him study the 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... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1861 - 816 pages
...let him study the mathematiks ; for in demonstrations if his thought be called ever so little away he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences \ie be not subtile], let him study the schoolmen, for they are the Cyminl sectores." — By-the-by,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 904 pages
...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...differences,* let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' cyrnini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...Pulchrorum auturanus pulcher," cited from Euripides (as Mr. Wright remarks) by Plut. Alcib. i. Essay L. " If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,...study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores." In the Advancement of Learning, i. 77, Bacon remarks that Antoninus Pius was called cymini sector,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...appropriate exercises — bowling is good for the stone and reins,1 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... | |
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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. If his wit be not apt to » distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are... 
