 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to centradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...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...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar: they perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience. For natural abilities are...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for * The Old Testament laid more strew... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly 7` ܨ # >< R y cA bd x!טfxZ ] X L f v' b y5 (c Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...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...their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and aliovo them won by observation. Head not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...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...men use them ; for they teach not their own use, but a wisdom that is without them, and above them, won by observation. Eead not to contradict and confute,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...study : and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded-in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple...won by observation. Bead, — not to contradict and refute, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, — but to weigh and consider.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...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...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience....without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - Books and reading - 1950 - 312 pages
...is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rule, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
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... judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect 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 too much at large,... 
