 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...are cymini sectores, [splitters of hairs.] If he be not apt to beat over matters, 1 and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. 2 If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 1 Studies poss into manners (form character}. Ovid, Her. acv. 83. 3 Dividfr: of cumin seed, hair-splitters.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. LI. OF FACTION. Many have an opinion not wise ; that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...frivolous distinctions ; or in splitting hairs. if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.6 FRANCIS BACON : 1561-1636. WISDOM DEAELY PUEOHASED. THE British Parliament, in a former session,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are " Cyinini sectores." If he be not apt to beat over matters,...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. t OF ялпшлпя AND SINGLE LTFB (1012 ¡ slightly enlarged 1625). He that hath wife and children... | |
 | Daniel Hack Tuke - Insanity - 1878 - 282 pages
...the schoolmen, for they are Cymini Sectores ; if he be not apt to beat over matters and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...defect of the mind may have a special receipt."—(" Of Studies.") Let a man be sure, then, that the cultivation of his taste for what is refined and beautiful,... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...schoolmen ;12 for they are cyaiini sectores.13 If he be not apt to beat over matters," and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. 1 Plots, plans, schemes. 2 Curiously, carefully looking into all the nooks and corners of the subject.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...schoolmen;'24 for they are ' Cy mini sector es.'<K> If he be not apt to beat over26 matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. NOTES ON ESSAY L. ' Studies.' He means not the act of studying, but the results that follow systematic... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like ; so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ANT1THETA ON STUDIES. PRo. CONTRA. ' Lectio est conversatio cum pruden- ' Quae unquam are docuit tempestltibus;... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...they are ey-4s mini sectores [hair-splitters']. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. II.- OF FRIENDSHIP. i. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together... | |
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... wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores... 
