 Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; 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...  Bombay Quarterly Review - Seite 3671856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. exLm. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Boom. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 Seiten
...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, 303. Sts. Kilian,... | |
 | 1832 - 670 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...and breast, gentle walking for the stomach.,, riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in...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... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 Seiten
...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.) - 1833 - 458 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 ; for they are... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 582 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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