 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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....Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted; norto find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...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....talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : ' Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 532 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...like natural plants — they need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience....talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions n Bö As if he labour'd yet to grasp the state With...now, and for his country, As 'twas against it, who tbem, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won hy observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
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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, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... 
