 | 1801 - 520 σελίδες
...BACON, in his Advancement of Learning: "Pure Mathematics," saith this noble precursor of Newton, " do " remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties ' intellectual. For if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if * too wandering, they fix it;' if too inherent in the sense, ' they abstract... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - 1801 - 480 σελίδες
...BACON, in his Advancement of Learning: "Pure Mathematics," saith this noble precursor of Newton, "-de ** remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | 1809 - 604 σελίδες
...recommending it to general pursuit, in the words of the illustrious Bacon : " Mathematics do rernecly and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual, For if the wit be dull they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 σελίδες
...divers others. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | 1821 - 408 σελίδες
...caught away but for a moment, the demonstration is new to begin. " And, indeed, men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it : if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | 1821 - 404 σελίδες
...moment, the demonstration is new to 1 " •* ' •*, begin. " And, indeed, men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it : if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | 1822 - 582 σελίδες
...; but which we should not have expected in one so well versed in mathematics, which, in general, ' do remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and faculties intellectual.' ' As far,' says he, ' as animals constitute the food of man, its increase must be in the same sort... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 σελίδες
...divers others. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 σελίδες
...divers others. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 σελίδες
...divers others. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick... | |
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In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull,... 
