 | Roger Bacon - 1859 - 718 pages
...** UUrum iion traditur in cis, sed exterius exspectatur;" — " For they [studies, .-.!.'[«/<".-..; 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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...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 Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; bnt that is a 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,... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 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,... | |
 | 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
...well-known essay says, that "Histories make men wise;" and further to enforce their study, he writes, "crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them,...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 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 tc find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...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...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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... 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,... 
