 | 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 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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 humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are... | |
 | 582 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those who 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 humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | 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 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...marshaling 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 ;...is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...them too much for Ornament, is Affectation ; to make Judgement wholly by their Rules is the Humour of a Scholar. They perfect Nature, and are perfected...Experience : For natural Abilities are like natural Plants, that need pruning by Study : And Studies themfelves do give forth Diredtions too much at Large, except... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the - humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected...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... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...marshallings 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 humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 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 humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected...— for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except... | |
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... of business. 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. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them... 
