 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1871 - 468 pàgines
...spend too much tune in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar....are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities require study, as natural plants need pruning; and studies themselves do give forth directions too... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 678 pàgines
...Abilities, are like Naturall Plants, that need Proyning by Study: And Studies themfelues, doe giue forth Directions too much at Large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty Men Contemne Studies; Simple Men Admire them; and Wife Men Vfe them :u For they teach not their owne Vfe... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1872 - 386 pàgines
...spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar:...experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pàgines
...spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning,1 by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they... | |
 | 1905 - 464 pàgines
...favorite luminaries to think about when we begin to write a review, in his essay on"Studies," said : "Studies themselves do give forth directions too much...at large, except they be bounded in by experience." The triteness of this saying cannot be better illustrated than by modern law book writers. Many men... | |
 | Donald Nivison Ferguson - 1969 - 317 pàgines
...spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be... | |
 | 1898 - 788 pàgines
...by their rules, is thé humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfccted by expérience. For natural abilities are like natural plants, that...studies themselves do give forth directions too much al large, excopt they be bounded in by expérience. Crafty men contemn sludies; simple men admire them;... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pàgines
...are perfected by experience.' In 1625 we find to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.88 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pàgines
...are perfected by experience.' In 1625 we find to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in byexperience.68 Throughout its versions this essay matures. In the process the element of experience... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pàgines
...culture, is made explicit in the passage cited above from the essay "Of Studies." To recall, studies "perfect nature, and are perfected by experience:...are like natural plants, that need pruning by study" (VI, 497). In a similar way, the studies outlined in the Novum organum not only facilitate the acquisition... | |
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural... 
