 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...emphatic. In addition to the one contained in the text, he has said elsewhere, — 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...deficience, except it be, that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematicks, 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... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...deficience, except it be, that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematicks, 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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Philosophy - 1873 - 744 pages
...intelligible enough if we adopt hia definition of Metaphysic. He is strong as to " the excellent use of pure Mathematics, in that they do .remedy and cure...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 - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...emphatic. In addition to the one contained in the text, he has said elsewhere, — 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 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 in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | 1872 - 554 pages
...Barrow called them a whetstone and a spur, 'whilst Bacon, less fond of rhetoric, has it: " If the wit is dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the flesh, they abstract it." It has been sometimes objected against these studies, that they do not cultivate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Education Department,London - 1876 - 1010 pages
...punctuation:— In the Mathematics I can report no déficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the Pure Mathematics...they do remedy and cure many defects in the Wit and Facultien intellectual. For if the Wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it... | |
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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,... 
