 ... for expert men can 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 learned.  “The” Pleasures of Life - Page 182by Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 479 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 652 pages
...may be said to have lived long in every thing, in years will rarely reach the age of the neuters. 8. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...they perfect nature and are perfected by experience, for natural abilities are like natural plants that need nursing by study ; and ttudies them* In a former... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...forms the firft Efiay in the firft and fecond Editions, 1597 and 8. Affectation ; to make Judgement wholly by their Rules is the Humour of a Scholar....They perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience : for natural Abilities are like natural Plants, that need pruning by Study : and Studies themfelves... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in -J studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...general counsels, and the plot* and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...To spend too much time in studies is sloth 6 ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.8 They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...spend too much time in studies is sloth ß ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.8 They perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural... | |
 | 1898 - 788 pages
...best from those that are learned. To spend toomuch timein studies, is sloth; to use them too in ne h for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is thé humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfccted by expérience. For natural abilities... | |
 | Joan Simon - 1966 - 472 pages
...civilised style by Francis Bacon. The initial essay 'On Studies' advised that 'to spend too much time on studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament,...perfect nature, and are perfected by experience'. As for various studies, 'histories make men wise; poets, witty; the 1 Sidney, An Apology for Poetry,... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pages
...either end or wisdom in themselves, and that knowledge unapplied in action was a pale academic vanity. "To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use...affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them;... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too much time in them, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation;...perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience... they teach not their own use, but that [? there] is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.... | |
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