 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 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...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 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... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 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...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,... | |
 | 1835 - 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...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning hich ܡ and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 742 pages
...Samuel Warren, Esq. FR S. Land. Svo. pp. 552. " STUDIES," remarked that model of wisdom Lord Bacon, " teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation." The object of the present volume is to facilitate the acquirement of that ' wisdom' by the students... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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; norto find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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....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 i You ask too... | |
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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. 
