 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 Seiten
...like as diseases of the body may have ap" propriated exercises : bowling is good for the stone and " reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking...stomach; riding for the head, and the like; so if a man's " wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in de" monstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 Seiten
...studies ; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; walking is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle...distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. CXLIII. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics;...called away never so little, he must begin again. — Lord Bacon. CXLIV. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poisoned between impertinence and folly. — Lavater. exLm. If a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics;...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 Seiten
...studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises : bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle...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 away never... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 Seiten
...Mathesis is the 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...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... | |
 | 1832 - 670 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking...differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and... | |
 | 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...differences, 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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 Seiten
...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...differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are ' Cymini sectores ;' if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and... | |
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... 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 ;" if he... 
