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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ... - Page 2
by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 428 pages
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth1, 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...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 parfect nature , and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 scholJar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe 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...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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...
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