 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 humor of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like...  The London University Calendar - Page 206by London univ - 1846Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come but from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | Church schools - 1844 - 456 pages
...learned. To spend too mnch time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too mnch for ornament, is affeetation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfeet nature, and are perfeeted by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...the general counsels, and plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 3. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. 5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that arc ambers arc perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by expedience ; for natural abilities require... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...is in privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute,...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; ttay perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a 1 0 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 740 pages
...discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of businesse." And soon after : — " To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;: to use...judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler." And so on. Both writers, then, if there are two, are fond of this same threefold construction,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Bouverie, Jane Vaughan Pinkney - 1850 - 384 pages
...delight, for ornament and for ability. * ****** 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. — BACON. SEVERAL days passed, a week, a month, and still there was no better understanding between... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned....affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are... | |
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