 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning 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. Some books are to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning 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. Some books are to... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty ; and studies themselves ilo give forth directions too much at large, except they...bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies. cimple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning 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. Some books are to... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study ; and studies themselves, do give forth directions...large, except they be bounded in by experience."* What then is the happy medium we should recommend ? even that which this Society is likely to establish... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Industrial arts - 1829 - 654 pages
...Engiabnigo Stadie* serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to beliere and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...— 5 Do donnc de la force a t'cacpression. To give forth directions, serepandent. except they be6 bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies,...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.... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 3. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them,...by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, noi to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. 4.... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; aud studies themselves do give forth directions too much...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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Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 
