 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 4. INTERPRETATION OF THE FABLE... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. THE ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 4. INTERPRETATION OF THE FABLE... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...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...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANT1TIIETA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTRA. " Lectio est conversatio cum prüden- '" QUÍD unquam ars docuit... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 904 pages
...schoolmen, for they are ' cyrnini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANTITIICTA ON KTUDlCa. • PRO. CONTRA. " Leetio est eonversatio cum pruden- " QUSB unquam ara docuit... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ; " if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 60. OP ADVERSITY. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...sectores ' [' dividers of cummin seed '] ;2 if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. OF DISCOURSE. Some in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sector es ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. To beat over matters : The meaning seems to be, to investigate, search for matters. Receipt : Synonyme... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...to the divine laws, and dedicating its choicest fruits to the Lord their God. ESSAY LI. OF FACTION. have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern...to govern his proceedings, according to the respect to factions, is a principal part of policy, whereas, contrariwise,2 the chiefest3 wisdom is, either... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANT1THETA ON STUDIES. PRo. CONTRA. ' Lectio est conversatio cum pruden- ' Quse unquam ars docuit tempestitibus... | |
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... 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 cymini sectores... 
