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Classic Selections from the Best Authors - Page 242
by Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 182 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot* and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...perfected by experience — for natural abilities are \\Ve •CVBXMTJ.V plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs como best from those that are learned. To spend too much...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 arc...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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 experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, tKat need pruning by study ; and studies...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 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 Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by tlieir rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, aiui are perfected by experience —...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is...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 National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...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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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and *.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies...
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