... 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,... Success and How to Attain It - Page 186edited by - 2004 - 448 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...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, won by observation. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
| Women - 480 pages
...special knowledges ; for Bacon says that " wise men use them, for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation." By observation then we must become wise in our generation ; not by a narrow descent on and fear of... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own tise ; but 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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...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, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
| Jonathan Eastwood - Bible - 1866 - 588 pages
...hence, to gain by labour. Bacon (Es*. L. p. 204) says of books ; For they teach not their owne use ; but that is a wisdom* without them, and above them, won by observation. Winebibber, sb. (Prov. xxiii. 20; Matt. xi. 19; Luke vii. 34). A drunkard. Now who knoweth not, that... | |
| John Tulloch - Conduct of life - 1866 - 308 pages
...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, won by observation. Eead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...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, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
| Henry Noble Day - English language - 1866 - 342 pages
...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 them, won by observation. The opening sentence in Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, as well as the succeeding extract from Middleton,... | |
| Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 380 pages
...contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their use ; but 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... | |
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