 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...sectores " (splitters of cummin, hair splitters). If he be not apt to beat over matters, to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another; let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt (remedy). 2. OF TKUTH.1 (FBOM THE SAME WOBK.) " WHAT is truth ? " said jesting Pilate ;2 and would... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...let him Study the Schoole-men; For they are Cymini seflores. If he be not Apt to beat over Matters, and to call up one Thing, to Prove and Illustrate...him Study the Lawyers Cases: So every Defect of the Minde, may have a Speciall Receit. LI faction MANY have an Opinion not wise ; That for a Prince to... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores." " If he be not apt to beat over '2 matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 5. Arguments, subjects. Milton calls the sub|ect of his Paradise Lost a " great argument." 6. Present,... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...difference, let 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. 4. King Henry the Seventh. No doubt, in him as in all men (and most of all in kings) his fortune wrought... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...the schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; 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. Jeremy Taylor: 1613-1667. Prayer. — From ' Golden Grove Sermons' Prayer is an action of likeness... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...study the disputations of the schoolmen' ; 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. LESSON XXV. THE TWO WEAVERS. HANNAH MORE. [This excellent and accomplished person, who was born in... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1870 - 636 pages
...schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores, (splitters of hairs.) 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." Without dwelling longer upon the subjects of study, let me impress upon you the importance of thoroughness.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...schoolmen, for they are "cymini sectores ; "i 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. 1 Girt * Attentively. i Should. ' What. : "Minners are influenced by studies." i Hindcrance. 'Worked.... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...let 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. OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...study the disputations of the schoolmen' ; 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. » LESSON XXV. THE TWO WEAVERS. K AH MOBE. [This excellent and accomplished person, who was born in... | |
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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... 
