 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience....that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First,—Propose... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 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....simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they tench not their own use : but that is а wisdom without them and above them, won bv observation. Read... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.—Quintilian. 140. Head 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; that is, some... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.— Quintilian. 140. Bead 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; that is, some... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."19 Here is a new note, which marks the end of scholasticism — ie, the divorce of knowledge... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...his adherence is not servile and questionless. His injunctions in Of Studies (version of 1625) are: 'Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience... they teach not their own use, but that [? there] is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict nor to believe, but to weigh and consider...67 Of Studies' first part as said is unchanged in 1612... | |
 | Robert Barrass - Business & Economics - 1995 - 212 pages
...expressed themselves clearly and simply. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in Of Studies, an essay, wrote: Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...and discourse, but to weigh and consider. . . . some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly,... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...the high ideals which places the book among those of the better class of Higher Thought literature. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty3 men contemn* studies, simple* men admire4 them, and wise5 men use them; for they teach not their own use;* but...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... | |
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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,... 
