| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. LORD BACON. WE may gather out of history, a policy no less wise than eternal, by the comparison and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. OF ^Faction. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...another, let him study the lawyer's cases ; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ^Faction. .MANY have an opinion, not wise, that for...respect of Factions, is a principal part of policy ; whereas, contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom is, either in ordering those things which are general,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...study the lawyer's cases ; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ^Fartion* 3(1 ANY have an opinion, not wise, that for a prince to govern...respect of Factions, is a principal part of policy ; whereas, contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom is, either in ordering those tilings which arc general,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...respect of factions, is a principal part of policy ; whereas, contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom is, either in ordering those things which are general,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...mind may have a special receipt. LII. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a priuce to govern his estate, or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect to factions, is a principal part of policy ; whereas, contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom is, either... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...schoolmen, for they are "Cymini sectores;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. LII. OF FACTIOJJ. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
| Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...let him study the schoolmen : for they are Cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt." Such is the nature of these Idols of the Den, with some of their consequences and remedies, " Of which... | |
| Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...let him study the schoolmen : for they are Cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt." Such is the nature of these Idols of the Den, with some of their consequences and remedies, " Of which... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...another, let him stndy the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. LIl. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for...prince to govern his estate, or for a great person to goveru his proceedings, according to the respect to factions, is a principal part of policy ; whereas,... | |
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