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The English language: its grammar and history. Together with a treatise on ... - Page 170
by Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...large 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...but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, born by observation. Read not to confute and cor. ^radict ; nor to believe and take for granted ; but...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...large, 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...Bead 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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, nnd wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above Ihem, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and nt a covert alley, upon carpenters' work, about twelve...which you may go in shade into the garden. As for t Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and lake for granted; nor to find talk and discourse...
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The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education, Volume 8

Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...large, 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...wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the ...

Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...large, 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;...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey oughtto be. First,—Propose...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the ...

Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...large, 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;...that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First,—Propose...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...large, 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;...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...large, 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...wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 564 pages
...large, 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...without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...
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