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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding - Page 183
by John Locke - 1849 - 132 pages
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...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 -J studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot* and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...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...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ß ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...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...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth 6 ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs como best from those that are learned. To spend too much...are perfected by experience : for natural abilities arc like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions...
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The Guardian, Volumes 10-11

1859 - 802 pages
...expert men may execute and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; 10 use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; and to judge wholly by their rules, is the humor...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that...ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by tlieir rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, aiui are perfected by experience —...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and htarshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; 4 to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; B to make judgment wholly by their rules, is...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...expert men can exeeute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too mnch time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affeetation ; to make judgment...
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