 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 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 expedience ; for natural abilities require... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation...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,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ;...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 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 1 0 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is eloth ; , to have led an irregular life, in the midst of severe poverty. A volume of Merry 's the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, ami are perfected by experience — for natural abilities... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. r/To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; risome; to use none at all, is blunt XXXIII. OF PLANTATIONS. Plantat ' only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. >. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ;...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,... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. I To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation...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,... | |
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... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. 
