 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 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... | |
 | John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 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 them,... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1866 - 342 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...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 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... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 464 pages
...to think about when we begin to write a review, in his essay on"Studies," said : "Studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience." The triteness of this saying cannot be better illustrated than by modern law book writers. Many men... | |
 | Donald Nivison Ferguson - Music - 1969 - 317 pages
...for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded by experience . . . For they teach not their own use; but that [use] is a wisdom without them, [that... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 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 they be bounded in by experience.88 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 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 they be bounded in byexperience.68 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | 许建平 - Chinese language - 2003 - 388 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 they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but... | |
 | Richard Lanham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 276 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 they be bounded 1 You might want to know that they have other names. For reasons too tedious to recount, the first... | |
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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... 
