 ... 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;...  The Retrospective Review - Page 2851821Full view - About this book
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him stndy the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him stndy the lawyers' cases : so every defect... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...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 of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases ; so every defect... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...talk of these Matters with so good and dear a " Friend.— Gray's-Inn, Feb. 27, 1610." • " ences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " ' Cymini...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...in de" monstrations, 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 ; if he be not apt to "beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and " illustrate another,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...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 ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...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 ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...for in demonstration, 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 : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
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