 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 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. Essays. P. 26, 1. 11. Quires seems here to have the double sense, referring both to the phut ef singing... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 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. Essays. P. 26, 1. i1. Quires if,ns here to lsscve the double sense, referring !:,:!. to the place of... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...they are cy-4 mini scctores [hair-splitters1]. If he be not apt to beat ovar 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...the school-men, 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. OF FACTION. 269 LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise — that for a prince to govern his estate,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...are cymini sectores, [splitters of hairs.] If he be not apt to beat over matters 8, 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... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen, for they are " Cymini sectores; " J if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. OF PRAISE. Praise is the reflection of virtue, but it is as the glass, or body, which giveth the reflection;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...the school-men, 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. i." LI. OF FACTION'. MANY have an opinion not wise — that for a prince to goveen his estate, or for... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...the school-men, 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. OF ADVERSITY. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that " the good things... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...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 become habits." 2 "Splitters of cummin-seeds;" or, as we now say, "splitters of straws,"... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...schoolmen,'8 for they are Cymini sectores ;lt> if he be not apt to beat over20 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 TO BACON'S ESSAYS. OF TRUTH. 1. See John xviii. 38. " Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? "... | |
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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... 
