 | Thomas Leybourn - 1801 - 480 strani
...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 it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - 1824 - 334 strani
...Bacon, " 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." vtrsal Mathematics.' 1 '—It is far superior, in many respects, to both Arithmetic... | |
 | 1821 - 408 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 strani
...they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For, if the wit be dxill, 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 strani
...excellent use oi the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cnr; many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, ti«j fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 strani
...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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1835 - 580 strani
...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... | |
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faculties intellectual; for if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the flesh, they abstract it. 
