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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 152
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Time and temper: a manual of selections from holy Scripture and extr. from ...

Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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, 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...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...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 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...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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, is affectation ; to make judgment only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment...experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...them too much for ornament, is aflectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected...experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give actions too much at large, except they...
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A Treatise on Grammatical Punctuation: Designed for Letter Writers, Authors ...

John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...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 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...
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Cobb's New Sequel to the Juvenile Readers, Or, Fourth Reading Book ...

Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pages
...marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. 3. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation...wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. 5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rule, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural...
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The London University Calendar

London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...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 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...
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