| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give actions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience....them; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : ' Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
| 1855 - 602 páginas
...and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants — they need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...them; for they teach not their own use : but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to... | |
| John Wilson - 1844 - 142 páginas
...nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men atiirire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 páginas
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won hy observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 páginas
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 páginas
...for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. 5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them,...them; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom won by observation. 4. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities... | |
| London univ - 1846 - 326 páginas
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men comtemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ;... | |
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