 | 1801 - 520 pagina’s
...BACON, in his Advancement of Learning: "Pure Mathematics," saith this noble precursor of Newton, " do " remedy and cure many defects in the wit, and...if too inherent in the sense, ' they abstract it. Se that as tennis is -a game of no use in ' itself, but of great use in respect it makcth a quick eye,... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - 1801 - 480 pagina’s
...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...; 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 eye,... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...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,...; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that, as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great uses in respect it maketh a quick eye,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pagina’s
...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...wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pagina’s
...1 " •* ' •*, begin. " And, indeed, men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure...wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it : if too wandering, they fix it : if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pagina’s
...demonstration is new to begin. " And, indeed, men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure...wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it : if too wandering, they fix it : if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pagina’s
...that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it: if too wandering, they 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 eye... | |
 | 1822 - 582 pagina’s
...; 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 - 1824 - 642 pagina’s
...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...wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pagina’s
...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...wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract... | |
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For, if the wit be dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. 
