 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...backward from our own times. — His works abound with similar observations. (c) Men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if two wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 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,...wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent iu the sense, they abstract... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Algebra - 1831 - 326 pages
...Bacon, " do remedy and cure many de" fects 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 abThe extent of this science is so great, that it has been called by way of pre-eminence, " The Great... | |
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...divers others. "In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except itbt 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.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...wandering or hurrying. ENCAGE IN STUDIES THAT WILL NOT ADMIT MENTAL ABERRATION. 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, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...backward from our own times. — His works abound with similar observations. (c) Men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics,...intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if two wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...natural philosophy, and is geometry or arithmetic 144 - Pure mathematics cure many intellectual defects. If the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering* they fix it ; iftuo inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a gamt of no use in itself, but... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 582 pages
...mathematics 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 it." A mind habituated to legal investigation, is, necessarily, an eminently acute and logical one... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1835 - 580 pages
...is, indeed, a science well worthy of Lord Bacon's eulogium on mathematics : — " Pure mathematics 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 iu the sense, they abstract... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 558 pages
...Studies?) In like manner, in The Advancement of Learning, published in 1605, he says of mathematics, ' If the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering,...fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.' (Book II. Matfiematiqw.') But in the relative place of the De Augmentis Scientiarum, the great... | |
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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,... 
