 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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 '...they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies', is sloth' ; to use too much for ornament', is affectation' ; to make...they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by- study; and studies themselves... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1872 - 386 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...they perfect Nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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...They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning,1 by study; and studies themselves... | |
 | Donald Nivison Ferguson - Music - 1969 - 317 pages
...phrases to make their point prick more sharply: "To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment...They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 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." They perfect nature, for... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...best from those that are learned. To spend toomuch timein studies, is sloth; to use them too in ne h for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is thé humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfccted by expérience. For natural abilities... | |
 | Joan Simon - Education - 1966 - 472 pages
...The initial essay 'On Studies' advised that 'to spend too much time on 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'. As for various studies,... | |
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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. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament... 
