 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...for Natural Abilities are like Natural Plants, that need Proyning by Study, and Studies themfelves do give forth Directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn Studies , Simple men admire them, and Wife men ufe them : For they teach not their... | |
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth1, 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 experience ; for natural abilities... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 by experience ; for natural abilities... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgement 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, that * Of the Advancement of Learning, p. 11, 13, 4to. 1633. need proyning by study: and studies themselves,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgement 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, that * Of the Advancement of Learning, p. 1 1, 12, 4to. 1633. need proyning by study: and studies themselves,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty; and ftudies thcmfelves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn ftudies, fimple men admire them, and wife men ufe them : for they teach nottheirown... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...Advancement of Learning, p. 11, 12, 4to. 1633. need proyning by study: and studies themselves, doe give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemne studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them: for they teach not their... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 by experience ; for natural abilities... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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 experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 by experience ; for natural abilities... | |
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... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 
