 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXLIII. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in...demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...reasonable creatures." — Conduct of the Undemtanding. Lord Bacon is much more precise on this head. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again." — Essays. VOL. in. 25 gebraico quam nostro... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...doctrine of the mathematics : mathematician, he who studies or is a proficient in them. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never BO little, he must begin again. Bacon, The malJicmaticlu and the metaphysicks Kail to them, as you... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...may i>« wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting...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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...walking for the stomach ; riding for the head and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study 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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 580 pages
...but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting...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... | |
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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. 
