 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, 15 simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh 20 and consider. Some books are... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a...without them, and above them, won by observation. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning7 by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider.8 Some books are... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty, and studies themselves do give forth directions too...without them, and above them, won by observation. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own tise ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, i-xcept they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar : they per'fect nature, and are perfected...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1866 - 308 pages
...retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience;...wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Eead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 pages
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
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To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use 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 by experience: for natural abilities are like natural... 
