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Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 242
by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pages
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rule, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural...
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Cobb's New Sequel to the Juvenile Readers, Or, Fourth Reading Book ...

Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pages
...the general counsels, and plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 3. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. 5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their...
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The London University Calendar

London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...disposition' of business'. For expert' men can execute', and perhaps judge' of particulars, one' by one' ; but the general' counsels', and the plots', and marshalling'...affectation'; to make judgment wholly' by their rules, is the humour' of a scholar'. They perfect' nature', and are perfected' by experience' ; for natural' abilities'...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affair*, come best from those that nre gardens of sweetness and chaste refreshments. No man...many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that arc ambers humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience — for natural abilities...
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The Massachusetts Teacher, Volume 1

1848 - 398 pages
...dispositions of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies,...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling...scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by expedience ; for natural abilities require study, as natural plants need pruning; and studies themselves...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but t think that the life of a man begini when he can...fight or beget his like, for so he is contemporary humour of a scholar ; ttay perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience — for natural abilities...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities...
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