 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 - Page 252edited by - 1921 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...and rhetoric able to contend. Studies exercise influence upon the morals ;i nay, there is no stand'1 or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by...So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematicks ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...and rhetoric able to contend. Studies exercise influence upon the morals ; l nay, there is no stand 2 or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by...So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematicks ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...for abillityes: Theire cheife use for pastyme, is " &c. » In the MS. this Essay ends" here. pediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as dtseases of the body may haue appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the Stone and Raines ; Shooting... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' ALcunt studia in mores" — nay, there is no stond' or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought' out...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 pages
...as diseases of the body may hare appropriate exercises — bowling is good for the stone and reins,1 shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 pages
...'have approprfetfe1«*ercises — bowling is good for the stone and reins,1 shooting for the lungs end 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 mathcntafrca, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pages
...instead of putting them on and wearing them, one should carry them about in his hand. " Thtrr it no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studio." It is a pity that Bacon did not more fully explain the mode in which different kinds of studies... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...moral, grave, logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ; " nay; there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by...the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...for abillityes: Theire cheife use for pastyme, is " &c. 2 In the MS. this Essay ends here. pediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may haue appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the Stone and Raines ; Shooting for the longs & breast... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...write not as if he wanted to say something, but as if he had something to say. ' There is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studios.' There are some kinds of crops which, besides the direct return to the husbandman, tend to... | |
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