 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy,...contend : " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...moral4 grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend0. " Abeunt studia in mores; " nay, there is no stand6 or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as 7 diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins"; shooting... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...fubtile ; natural Philofophy deep ; moral Grave ; Logick and Rhetorick able to contend. Abeunt jludia in Mores. Nay there is no Stand or Impediment in the...Wit, but may be wrought out by fit Studies : Like as Difeafes of the Body may have Appropriate Exercifes. Bowling is good for the Stone and Reins ; Shooting... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [Trinity College Fellowships, 1835.] 66. INDOLENCE is therefore one of the vices from which those whom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, eat counsel, then is the virtue of a judge seen, to...as \ipon an even ground. " Qui fortiter emungit, slond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...natural or acquired, to which the human mind is liable. " There is no stand or impediment," says Bacon, " in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...no stand or i See Bacon's Works, De Augment. Scieittinr. lib. v. rap. iv. impediment," says Bacon, "in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appropriated exercises: bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast;... | |
 | Charles Simon Catel - 1854 - 58 pages
...MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and ability. * * * There U no atontl or impediment In the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies."— Lord Bacon. A TREATISE ON HARMONY CHARLES SIMON CATEL, MEMBER OP THE CON8ERVATOIRE DE MUSIQUE AT PARIS.... | |
 | Adolf Bernhard Marx - 1854 - 176 pages
...OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and ability. * * * There is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies." — Lord Bacon. GENERAL MUSICAL INSTRUCTION, (ALLGEMEINE MUSIKLEHRE.) AN AID TO TEACHERS AND LEARNERS... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy...deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as... | |
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And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the... 
