 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...  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 431by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...contend. " Abeunt studia in mores:" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may...appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone aud reins; shooting, for the lungs and breast; gentle walking, for the stomach; riding, for the head,... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...pass into and influence manners]. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases of the body...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... | |
 | Adrian Johns - 2009 - 779 pages
...Francis Bacon himself had said that there was no "impediment in the wit" that could not be "wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises." "So if a man's wit be wandering," he had advised, "let him study the mathematics." 8 Such advice was... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 522 pages
...human body can contain so much matter. Dictionary of Accepted Ideas 88 DISEASE Bacon, Francis . . . diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises; bowling is good for the stone and veins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...Abeunt studio in mores* Nay there is no stond14 or impediment in the wit,15 but may be wrought out16 by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. 1 arrangements 2 pruning, cultivating 3 cunning 4 wonder at 5 prudent, judicious 6 with minute attention... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...Abeunt] Ab-\eunt 12b;Ab eunt 13a; there is no Stond or Impediment in the Wit, but may be 40 wrought out by Fit Studies: Like as Diseases of the Body,...Appropriate Exercises. Bowling is good for the Stone and Reines; Shooting for the Lungs and Breast; Gentle Walking for the Stomacke; Riding for the Head; And... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...'Abeunt studia in mores'.0 Nay there is no stond0 or impediment in the wit,0 but may be wrought out0 by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling0 is good for the stone and reins;0 shooting0 for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the... | |
 | 许建平 - 2003 - 388 pages
...con tend. Abeunt studia* in mores. Nay, there i no stand of impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may...shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for stomach; riding foe the head; and the like. So if a man* s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics;... | |
 | Samuel Warren, Thomas W. Clerke - 2004 - 676 pages
...philosophers : " There is no stond, or impediment in the wit," says Lord Bacon, " but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body...bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting t for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So if... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
..."Studies go to form character;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. Like as diseases of the body may...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 never... | |
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