 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1689 - 196 pages
...our Minds, and make a new Bargain, there's Fides ser-vanda there too. N LXXIX Learning O Man is the wiser for his Learning : it may administer Matter...work upon ; but Wit and Wisdom are born with a Man. 2. Most Men's Learning is nothing but History dully taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinas for some Tenet,... | |
 | John Selden - 1716 - 156 pages
...Steaming. I.TWTO Mm is the wifer for his Learning; it. _LN administer Matter to work in, orObjectJ to work upon, but Wit and Wisdom are born with a Man. 2. Moft Men's Learning a nothing but History July taken up. If I quote Thomas A/puma for fome Tenenc,... | |
 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1786 - 196 pages
...our our mindi, and make a new- baigan, there's fides Jervanda there too. LEARNING. I. NO man is the wiser for his learning ; it may administer matter...work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. II. Most men's leaining is nothing but history duly taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinas for some tenet,... | |
 | John Selden - Early printed books - 1786 - 190 pages
...alter uur minds, and make a new bargan, there's f.des fcrvancta there too. LEARNING. ..I. NO man is the wiser for his learning ; it may administer matter to work in, or objefts to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. II. Most men's learning is nothing but... | |
 | Periodicals - 1801 - 446 pages
...the remark of the great Selden's, " that no man is the wiser for his learning ;" and that " learning may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wisdom and wit arc born with a man." INACTIVITY. POLYBIUS relate1!, that when the battle was begun... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...opinions of so learned a man concerning learning cannot but be deserving of attention. He says, " No n an is wiser for his learning: it may administer matter...work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man." -" Most men's learning is nothing but history duly taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinas for some tenet,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn ; wisdom is in bringing about ends. IBID: NO man is the wiser for his learning ; it may administer matter...work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. IBID. WORLDLY ENJOYMENTS. When I consider life, 't is all a cheat ; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...alter our minds, and make a new bargain, there isjides seroanda there too. LEARNING. 1. No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter...work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. 2. Most men's learning is nothing but history duly taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinas for some tenet,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...alter our minds, and make a new bargain, there \sfides servanda there too. LEARNING. 1. No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter...work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. 2. Most men's learning is nothing but history duly taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinas for some tenet,... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...alter our minds, and make a new bargain, there \sjldes servanda there too. LEARNING. 1. No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter...work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. 2. Most men's learning is nothing but history duly taken up. If I qnote Thomas Aquinas for some tenet,... | |
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No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter to work in or objects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. 
