 ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement.  The Diversions of Purley - Page 16by John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 739 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 pages
...indiscriminate defence of right and wrong, though the mind may be convinced at the time, when he says that ' certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding * The legal character of Sev. Sulpicius was admirable : " Neque ille magis juris consultus quam justiti.-E... | |
 | Sir Edward Johnson - Language and languages - 1842 - 622 pages
...loquendum ut vulgus, sendiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do sboot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So that it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 688 pages
...message of Oberon and be back instantly. In the ' Advancement of Learning ' (Book II.), Bacon observes that : — " Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." And in one of his speeches (on the ' Motion of a Subsidy ') says : — " bure am I it was like a Tartar's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, " Loqucndum ut vulgus, scntiendum ut sapientes;" yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow,...controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the mathematics, in setting down in the very beginning the definitions of our words and terms, that others... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 488 pages
...Bacon, in his " Advancement of Learning," says most truly : " Although we think we govern our words, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." Thus, our estimates of character are warped from the impartiality of Scripture and of truth. We have... | |
 | 1853 - 680 pages
...were originally known. Although we think we govern our words, says Bawn, yet certain it is, that words do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. Words are generally imposed according to vulgar conceptions, and divide things by lines or distinctions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, " Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ;" d laying it to consume : to see whether it will work...that part which was once joined with it. 998. It mathematics, in setting down in the very beginning the definitions of our words and terms, that others... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well ' loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes,' yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment (a)." Several important phrases in the law of evidence ; such as " presumption," " best evidence,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapicntes, [a man should speak like the vulgar, and think like the wise;] yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...as it is almost necessary in all controversies and 1 So in the original -. the word being pronounced in Bacon's time Epicurian. See Walker on Shakespeare's... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapicntes, [a man should speak like the vulgar, and think like the wise ;] yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...as it is almost necessary in all controversies and 1 So In the original : the word being pronounced in Bacon's time Epicurian. See Walker on Shakespeare'... | |
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