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
| Henry Noble Day - English language - 1872 - 386 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... | |
| Otis Phillips Lord - 1872 - 46 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. * * 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." ,More, formerly, than now in the early education of youth was there the just admixture... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 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... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by rtheir 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 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 per'feet nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privatenesB,' and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for...scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...the judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots...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... | |
| Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...the judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots...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 - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and 1 Go. To tend to. * To deprive by stealth ; to rob. marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...; to make ' judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities... | |
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