| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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