 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...and arc 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.— Bacon. LONDON: JOHN CASSELL. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDOATE HILL. MDCCCLIT. As -we have already informed... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...studies, simple men admire, and wise men use thenr; for they teach not their own use; but that '.here is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....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... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 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... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First,—Propose... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey oughtto be. First,—Propose... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants — they need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they tench not their own use : but that is а wisdom without them and above them, won bv observation. Read... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 - English essays - 1856 - 406 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...short specimens of Ba con's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus "Crafty men contemn studies; simple mec admire them; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdorr without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
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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. 
