 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use,... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use,... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty, and studies themselves do give forth directions too...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use,... | |
 | 1861 - 70 pages
...correction and improvement of his mind with the use and employment thereof." " Wise men use studies: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom...without them, and above them, won by observation," and many others. Another leading complaint to be made is, that according to the old metaphor, it is... | |
 | 1862 - 226 pages
...and further to enforce their study, he writes, "crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, wise men use them: for they teach not their own use;...without them and above them, won by observation." Pacts, in their narration, take a tinge from the medium through which they are transmitted. We judge... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, 15 simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ;... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 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...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use;... | |
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They perfect 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 too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn... 
