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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... - Page 22
by Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 120 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, 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 and consider. Some books are to...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies. cimple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ; not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to...
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Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended ...

Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, 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 and consider. Some books are to...
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The English Instructor: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Selected from ...

1830 - 288 pages
...forth directions, serepandent. except they be6 bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for...them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider....
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

1832 - 670 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that ia a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe arid take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...unless they are hedged in by experience'. Crafty men' . . contemn studies'; simple men' . . admire', and wise men' . . use', them'; for they teach not...Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe or take for granted'; nor to find matter merely for conversation'; but to weigh and consider'. Some...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, or to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be...
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for...without them, and above them, won by observation. ^Iratl not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own...them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to conliadict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, or to find talk and discourse, but to...
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