 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...affairs, come best from those who are learned. 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...affairs come best from those that are learned. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment...they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment...they per'fect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 pages
...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment...they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...aft'airs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use thom too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment...they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1867 - 374 pages
...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment...they perfect Nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment...rules, is the humor of a scholar ; they perfect nature, aud are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...planting. As natural plants do not 'need pruning by study,' alter 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... | |
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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. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament... 
