 ... 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 it maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures...  Science - Page 234edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1801 - 480 pages
...quick eye, and a body ready to put itself in all positions ; so, in the Mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient, is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended." It is, therefore, not without sufficient reason that mathematical studies have been pursued with great... | |
 | Mathematics - 1801 - 520 pages
...eye, ' and a body ready to put itself in all positions ; so, in the ' Mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient, * is no less worthy than that which is principal and in" tended." It is, therefore, not without sufficient reason that mathematical studies have been pursued... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...quick eye, and a body ready to put itsdf into all positions; so in the mathematics, that use which is- collateral and intervenient, is no less worthy, than that which is principal and intended." Ait. IX. Jarrold's dnthrapologia ; or, Dissertations tm the Form and , -.j . Colour of Man. • . •... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...quick eye, and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient, is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended. And as for the mixed mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended." In his sentiments of the importance of the habit of intellectual fixedness, Bacon is not peculiar.... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended." In his sentiments of the importance of the habit of intellectual fixedness, Bacon is not peculiar.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...quick eye, and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient, is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended. And as for the mixed mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...a quick eye and a body ready to be put into all postures, so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended. * This is to be exactly observed, that not only exceeding great progression may be made in those studies,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended. And as for the mixed mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures ; so in the mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended. And as for the mixed mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more... | |
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