 ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 41872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 pages
...like common distilled waters — flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference, a ready mac ; and writing, an exact man; and, therefore, if a man...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not know. [?~\ — Bacon. (2.) SAYINGS OF SENECA. EW wu md ia d-, nei c ny hp t gn with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they he bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...waters, flashy things.4 Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man.6 And therefore, if a man write little, he had need...mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave 6 ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.7 Abeunt studio, in mores. [The studies pass into the manners.]... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...waters, flashy things.4 Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man.5 And therefore, if a man write little, he had need...mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave 6 ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.7 Abeunt studio, in mores. [The studies pass into the manners.]... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...general contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; "Abeunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, i-xcept they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...they teachnot their own use; butthatis a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Head not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and...Histories make men wise ; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studio in... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...confer little, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1625. need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtle ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Studies... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they he hounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
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