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Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 242
by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pages
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pages
...perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshallings of affairs, come best from those that are learned....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 are...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 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 are...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by tlieir rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected...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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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need priming by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 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...perfected by experience ; for natural - abilities require study, as natural plants need pruning; and studies themselves do give forth directions too...
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The popular educator, Volume 4; Volume 7

Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 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 arc perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but take ittubenoother, but that the part against which...support the flower. 494. What a little moisture will do only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience:...
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The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education, Volume 8

1855 - 396 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...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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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned....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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