Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... be 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.... "
Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and ... - Page 498
by Francis Bacon - 1858
Full view - About this book

Masterpieces in English Literature, and Lessons in the English Language ...

Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...are " Cymini sectores." If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prave and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers'...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt, t or XARRIAOG AND SINGLE LITE (1612 ; Blightly enlarged 162.1)). He that hath wife and children hath...
Full view - About this book

Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...schoolmen; for they are " Cyniini sectores." If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the rniiid may have a special receipt.! OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE (1612 ; slightly enlarged 1625). He...
Full view - About this book

Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...study the schoolmen, 34 for they are " cumini sectores;"~ :& if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases—so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. (57) XX. OF ANGER. TO seek to extinguish...
Full view - About this book

Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...let him study the schoolmen, for they are Cymini sectores;9 if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...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...
Full view - About this book

Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...him study the schoolmen ; for they are " cymini net-tores." J If he be not apt to beat over matters, x ! From Plato's " Republic " downward various attempts have been made by philosophers in playful earnest...
Full view - About this book

Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...difference, let him study the schoolmen, for they are Cymini sedores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...cases; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.—Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. 7. Character of King Henry the Seventh. THIS King (to...
Full view - About this book

Studies in English, prose and poetry, ed. and annotated by H.C. Bowen

Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...schoolmen, for they are hair-splitters ; if he be not apt to beat over§ matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. || * Conversation ; society. 'f- Wit — mind ; AS witan, to know. Present = ready. J Got rid of. §...
Full view - About this book

English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...schoolmen, for they are 'cymini sectores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him...every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. • ANTITH2TA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTRA. " Lectio est con versatio cum pruden- " Quce . unqnam ars docuit...
Full view - About this book

English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...schoolmen, for they are ' cymini scctores ;" if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to .prove and illustrate another, let him...lawyers' cases — so every defect of the mind may haye a special receipt. ANTITHETA ON STUDIES. PRO. CONTEA. " Lectio est cnnversalio cum pruden- " QHID...
Full view - About this book

Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...faults he might be a very good citizen and was certainly an excellent poet. R. PORSON 184. FACTIONS. Many have an opinion not wise; that for a prince to govern his estate 1 , or for a great person to govern his proceedings, according to the respect of factions, is a principal...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF