 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...Elenchi magni, give de idolis animihumani nativis et adventitiis. De .i nlogia demonstra tionuin. gun, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is, that...upon the understanding' of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...vulgar sort ; and although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is, that...upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - English language - 1826 - 184 pages
...vulgar sort: and although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well — loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes;— yet certain it is, that...the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement." — Of the Advancement uf Learning. If words shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...vulgar sort ; and although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, " Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ;" yet certain it is, that...upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - Christianity - 1828 - 498 pages
...striking instance of the truth of his own excellent remark, that " although we think we govern our words, yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow,...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." His intention of retaining names and discarding things, is, for this reason, a principle more commendable... | |
 | Maynard Davis Richardson, William Gilmore Simms - Ethics - 1833 - 304 pages
...vulgtis, sentienilutn ut sapien/rv;"' yet eertain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot baek upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So it is almost neeessary in all eontroversies and disputations to imitate t lie wisdom of the mathematieians... | |
 | Albany Fonblanque - Great Britain - 1837 - 364 pages
...CERTAIN it is," says Bacon, " that words, as a " Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the under" standing of the wisest, and mightily entangle " and pervert the judgment : so as it is almost neces" sary in all controversies and disputations to imi" tate the wisdom of the mathematicians, in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...vulgar sort : and although we think we govern our words and prescribe it well " Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes,"* yet certain it is that...pervert the judgment; so as it is almost necessary, inall controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians, in setting down... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 806 pages
...we govern our words, and prescribe it well—loquendum ut vulgi/s, sentiendum ut sapient es;—yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot...upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily en • tangle and pervert the judgment. So as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations... | |
 | Edward Johnson - Language and languages - 1842 - 584 pages
...we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, loquendum ut vulgus, sendiendum ut sapienies ; yet certain it is, that words, as a Tartar's bow,...and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So that it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the wisdom of the mathematicians,... | |
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... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well ' loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes ' ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the... 
