 | Mathematics - 1801 - 520 pages
...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 - Mathematics - 1801 - 480 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...; 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 - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...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 - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 pages
...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,... 
