 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 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.... | |
 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...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 ; and wise men use them ; for they VOL. vt. a teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1866 - 930 pages
...themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 6. 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.... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 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.... | |
 | Colin Charles Bayne-Jardine, Peter Holly - Education - 1994 - 164 pages
...project commissioned by the LEA from Worcester College of Higher Education. As Francis Bacon wrote: 'crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them'. This evaluation report has been used to develop and refine an interactive model for training that will... | |
 | Nehgs - 1995 - 498 pages
...Resources, Delivered before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, May 9, 1872. By ALONZO TAFT. " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." — Lord Bacon. Cincinnati. Robert Clarke & Co. 1872. Mr. Taft has put into a compact form a very full... | |
 | Roy Bedichek, Jane Gracy Bedichek - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 494 pages
...therein that one of the wisest men believes that studies are for delight, ornament and ability; and that crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. I shall have to believe, then, that you are "crafty," since you contemn them so vigorously, whereas... | |
 | Richard Lanham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 276 pages
...involved in, or framed into, one plot too many and forced to commit suicide in 65 AD. in by experience. 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.... | |
 | Religion - 2004 - 228 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 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.... | |
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