 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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... | |
 | Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 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. (Essay L. of Studies.) This contempt, whether of crafty men or narrow-minded men, often finds its expression... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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 - 1858 - 790 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 942 pages
...except they be bounded in by experience. 6. Crafty men contemn studies Dimple men admire them; and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use...wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. 1. Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;... | |
 | Heinrich von Sybel - History - 1860 - 1198 pages
...ЗЗасоп l)eifjt ев: For they (bit 30* llefcerfidjt bet b.iflorifd)ett Siteratur 3Biffenfd)aften) teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Brut y Tywysogion, or the Chronicle of the Princes of England, ed. by the Rev. John Williams ap Ithel.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...any amount of mere literary training. With his usual weight of words, Bacon observes, that " Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation ; " a remark that holds true of actual life, as well as of the cultivation of the intellect itself.... | |
 | Roger Bacon - Philosophy - 1859 - 698 pages
...enim " illamm non traditur in eis, sed exterius exspectatur ¡" — " For they [studies, scieutia:,"] teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."— Essays, L. in the second year of his pontificate. The six succeeding years afford no clue to his feelings... | |
 | Roger Bacon - Learning and scholarship - 1859 - 712 pages
...enim " illarum non tradilur in eis, sed extcrius exspectatur;" — " For they [studies, scientite,'] teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation." — Essays, L. in the second year of his pontificate. The six succeeding years afford no clue to his... | |
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... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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,... 
