 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : ' Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pages
...and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants — they need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning ierceness, and his hands still mov'd, 193 13 CYCLOPEDIA...now, and for his country, As 'twas against it, who tbem, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men atiirire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won hy observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...of ability." " Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds — they ever fly by twilight." " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pages
...for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. 5. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them,...they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom won by observation. 4. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pages
...be known.—Ecclesiastical Polity, Lord Bacon, bor n 1561, died 1626. OF STUDIES. Crafty men contenm studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use...but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor... | |
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Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 
