 The first is their negligence: "Other men look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge: an husbandman will mend his ploughirons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer or huntsman will have...  The Infirmities of Genius - Sivu 37tekijä(t) Richard Robert Madden - 1833Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Andrew Combe - 1831 - 440 sivua
...speaking of too much study as a cause, quotes the following quaint passage from MARSILIUS FICINCS:—" Other men look * to their tools; a painter will wash his pencils; a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, and forge ; an husbandman will mend his plough-irons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 sivua
...was an imperishable material which no excess was capable of injuring, Idleness to him is the cerugo animi the rubigo ingenii; but the insidious corrosive...foolish men in the world; other men look to their tools—a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, a husbandman will mind his... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 sivua
...was an imperishable material which no excess was capable of injuring. Idleness to him is the <erugo animi, the rubigo ingenii ; but the insidious corrosive...imperceptible. " Surely," says Ficinus, " scholars are the most foolish men in the world ; other men look to their tools — a painter will wash his pencfs,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 sivua
...Dr. Slop. We select two or three instances out of fifty : — ' Surely,' says Ficinus, ' scholars are the most foolish men in the world — other men look to their tools,' &c. — vol. i., p. 39. This translation from Ficinus is taken without acknowledgment from Burton,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 sivua
...Dr. Slop. We select two or three instances out of fifty : — ' Surely.' says Ficinus, ' scholars are the most foolish men in the world — other men look to their tools,' &c. — vol. i., p. 39. This translation from Ficinus is taken without acknowledgment from Burton,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce - 1840 - 516 sivua
...friend Dr. Slop. We select two or three instances out of fifty : "'Surely,' says Ficinus, 'scholars are the most foolish men in the world — other men look to their tools,' <fcc.— Vol. i, p. 39. " This translation from Ficinus is taken without acknowledgment from Burton,... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 sivua
...are worthy the professed student's notice. ' Surely,' he observes, 'scholars are the silliest people in the world. Other men look to their tools : a painter will cleanse his pencils, a smith will regard the state of his hammer, a husbandman will take care of his... | |
 | Joseph Leech - 1847 - 282 sivua
...As Marsilius Ficinus, who wrote on the subject of preserving the soundness of body and mind, says, " Other men look to their tools : a painter will wash his pencils ; a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge; a husbandman will mend his plough-irons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 688 sivua
...their negligence; и" other men tiooii, de fiicili inc.idunt in melancholiam, 188 [Part. l.Sec. 2. look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge; a husbandman will mend his plough-irons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull ; a falconer... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 sivua
...тип. dum Universum metiri soient, spiritual scilicet, peuilui negligore videautur. 188 [Parti. Sec. S. look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge ; a husbandman will mend his plough-irons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull ; a falconer... | |
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