 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 pages
...the mind is worse than the matter of disease in the body. — Dr. Whicheote. 364. 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,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
..."Abeunt in studia mores"*— nay, there is no stond • or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought7 out by fit 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...as diseases of the body may have 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, 40 but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercise : bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - 1876 - 222 pages
...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abcunt stttdia in mores ;H nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. 14 Insert ut aiunt to show the proverb. XXXVI. ANTONY IN DEFEAT. — North's Phitarch. I. ANTONIUS,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...instead of putting them on and wearing them, one should carry them about in his hand. " There it no gtond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit Hudiet." It is a pity that Bacon did not more fully explain the mode in which different kinds of studies... | |
 | New Hampshire dept. of publ. instruction - 1877 - 284 pages
...by studies]; nay, there is no stond [hindrance] or impediment in the wit but may be wrought [worked] out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond nor impediment 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 214 pages
...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: Abcunt studio, in mores ; 14 nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. 14 Insert ut aiunt to show the proverb. XXXVI. ANTONY IN DEFEAT.—North's Plutarch. 1. ANTONIUS, flying... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - 1877 - 226 pages
...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abcunt studia in mores ;14 nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. 14 Insert ut aiunt to show the proverb. XXXVI. ANTONY IN DEFEAT. — NortKs Plutarch. I. ANTONIUS,... | |
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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... 
