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 away... Types of the Essay - Página 238editado por - 1921 - 373 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...; moral Grave ; Logick and Rhetorick able to contend. Abeunt jludia in Mores. Nay there is no Stand or Impediment in the Wit, but may be wrought out by fit Studies : Like as Difeafes of the Body may have Appropriate Exercifes. Bowling is good for the Stone and Reins ; Shooting... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 páginas
...the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins;...so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematies, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 páginas
...no stand or i See Bacon's Works, De Augment. Scieittinr. lib. v. rap. iv. impediment," says Bacon, "in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit 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;... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 páginas
...natural or acquired, to which the human mind is liable. " There is no stand or impediment," says Bacon, " in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit 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;... | |
| Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 páginas
...coherence all along." [Locke, Introduction to the conduct of the Human Understanding, Bk. 4, Sec. 7. " If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, vif his wit be called away ever J so little, he must begin again." — [Lord Bacon. " The habits of... | |
| Adolf Bernhard Marx - 1854 - 176 páginas
...OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and ability. * * * There is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies." — Lord Bacon. GENERAL MUSICAL INSTRUCTION, (ALLGEMEINE MUSIKLEHRE.) AN AID TO TEACHERS AND LEARNERS... | |
| Charles Simon Catel - 1854 - 58 páginas
...MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and ability. * * * There U no atontl or impediment In the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies."— Lord Bacon. A TREATISE ON HARMONY CHARLES SIMON CATEL, MEMBER OP THE CON8ERVATOIRE DE MUSIQUE AT PARIS.... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...in the mind is worse than the matter of disease in the body.—Dr Whichcote. 337. There is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by...diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...in the mind is worse than the matter of disease in the body.—Dr Whichcote. 337. There is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by...diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of disease in the body.—Dr Whichcote. 337. may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,... | |
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