 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
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...counsels, and the plots and mar shalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To speno too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too...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... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...achievements, which are to enroll your names among the great men of the earth. STUDIES.— LORD BACON. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...their peace and joy. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. (Manual, pp. 92-104.) From the Essays. 58• OF STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for, expert men can.execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. 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 humor of a scholar* : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...such things, for state and magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a garden. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....; to make ' judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1871 - 468 pages
...agony and mercy's claim, And love's last words of grief are written in thy dyes. To spend too much tune in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament...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 require... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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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