 | 1856 - 422 σελίδες
...others. In the mathematics, I can discover no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...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 it ;... | |
 | 1856 - 876 σελίδες
...exactitude of " In the mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...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 it.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 σελίδες
...divers others. In the Mathematics I can report no deficiency, 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 - 1859 - 852 σελίδες
...deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the Pure Mathematies, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the...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... | |
 | John Harris - 1858 - 420 σελίδες
...can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand their excellent use, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the...fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it." And why are such studies so favourable to intellectual vigour ? Simply because, by descending... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 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... | |
 | Charlton Thomas Lewis - 1859 - 42 σελίδες
...medicine; a remedial agent for minds deformed or imperfect. Such are the uses mentioned by Lord Bacon ; "If the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering,...fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it." Perhaps the last of these, though the least noticed, is the most important and valuable. For this... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - 1859 - 190 σελίδες
...Bacon, " do remedy and cure many drli-cts in the wit and faculties intellectual; for, if the wit be dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too Lcherent in the sense, they abstract it." s • The effect of such mental habits, or of the want of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 σελίδες
...arithmetic . 199 2. Pure mathematics cure many intellectual defects. //' the wit be too dull, they tharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ,• if too inherent in the si-nse, they abstract it. So that as tennis it a game of no tut in itself, but of great use in respect... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1860 - 380 σελίδες
...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,...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... | |
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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,... 
