| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...them too much for ornament is affectation ; to . make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They parfect nature , and are perfected... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...generall counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...generall counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...general counsels,,and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholJar. They perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is sloth; to use them- too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They/ perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use...them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...general counsels-, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use...too much for ornament., is- affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...Testament; adversity of the New. Studies and reading serve for delight, for ornament, and for use. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is afl'eclaiion; and to judge wholly by their rains is pedantic. Letters perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
| Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...affairs, come best from those who are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies is *loth ; toure • them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make...judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience for natural abilities are like natural... | |
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