 | 1821 - 408 pages
...told, always read a book as if he never were to see it again. " 4. In general there is no stond or 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...as the former edition, but it thus continues " Abeunt studia in mores ;" " nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, " but may be wrought out by...like as " diseases of the body may have appropriate exer" cises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, " shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...as the former edition, but it thus continues " Abeunt studia in mores;" " nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, " but may be wrought out by...like as " diseases of the body may have appropriate exer" cises; bowling is good for the stone and reins, " shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...as the former edition, but it thus continues " Abeunt studia in mores ;" " nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, " but may be wrought out by...like as " diseases of the body may have appropriate exer" cises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, " shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...moral, grave; logic and rbetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or 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;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pages
...natural or acquired, to which the human mind is liable. " There is no stand or im" pediment" (says Bacon) "in the wit, but may be wrought " out by fit studies, 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;... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit...diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; walking is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia in mores,' ' Studies pass into laws :' nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit...body may have appropriate exercises : bowling is good fur the stone ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for tke stomach ; riding for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may i>« wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the...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... | |
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, 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... 
