 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 like...  Philosophical works - Page 301by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1872 - 386 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar: they perfect Nature, and are perfected...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...use too much for ornament', is affectation' ; to make judgment wholly by their rules', is the humor of a scholar' : they perfect nature, and are perfected...at large, except they be bounded in by experience. * 3. Crafty men' contemn studies'; simple men' admire them' j and wise men use them' : for they teach... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...rtheir rules is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature and .are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural -plants, that need...by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple inec .admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their •own use ; but that is a wisdom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...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...Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ;3 and wise men use them:4 for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar: they perfect nature and are perfected...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty wise men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...rules, is the humour 12 of a scholar. They perfect nature,' 3 and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need...at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 14 Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: 15 for they teach not... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1875 - 372 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar : they perfect Nature, and are perfected...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar: they perfect nature and are perfected...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty wise men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...time in study 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...natural plants that need pruning by study, and studies do give forth directions too much at large except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...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...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be... | |
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