 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 254 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be limited by experience. Crafty men contemn fludies, Cmple men admire them, and wife men ufe them ; for they teach not their own ufe ) but that is a wifdom won by obferatLn. 3. Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by Study ; and Studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn Studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by Study; and Studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn Studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...} for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not what is their own use, but what is wis-~ dom without them, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by stndy; and stndies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn stndies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...men contemn studies, simple men admire them,- and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
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... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them... 
