...prescribe it well ..\-utnJum vt Tulgta untiendum uI sapitntes ; 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 judgement " See also note on lines 26, 27. (Less likely, but just worth mentioning, is the passage...

...great deal opener than it does"! Bacon, too, reminds us that "although we think we govern our words, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." The importance, moreover, of having accurate geographical and chronological information as to the past,...

...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest and mightily entangle and pervert judgment."2 Philosophy should be given a place beside science in the teacher's thinking and the two...

...loquendum ut itulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; [to speak like the vulgar, and to think like the wise;] yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do...the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement. So as it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom...

...it and its subject. 101. The Tartar's bow. Bacon's Advancement of Learning, (Bk. II, xiv, 11) reads, 'Yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow,...shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest.' The Tartars were famous for their skill in archery, like the ancient Parthians. Page 70. 114. Their...

...and their meaning difficult to decipher. Bacon s saying, that, "Though we think we govern our words, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding, and do mightily entangle and pervert the judgment," is true. It was a saying of Daniel O'Connell that...

...and 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...entangle and pervert the judgment. So as it is almost neces«•!. sary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the • t wisdom of the mathematicians,...

...generalisations have always been serious pitfalls in the path of science, they are 'idola fori' which " as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily intangle and pervert the judgment." But if we reject these unwarranted generalities, we are faced by...

...that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect. Words, as a Tartar's bow, shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert their Judgment." Naming a thing is not the same as designating or denoting it. I can describe something...

...halfconsciously render baña " murderer " : and "murderer " does imply blame. "Words," says Bacon, "as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest." Lawrence continues: "The lines tell us that it was regarded as disgraceful for the Danes to have to...