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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,... "
Success and How to Attain It - Page 186
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The Revised Lesson Book for Standard I(-vi) of the Revised Code of the ...

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,...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

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,...
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The English Woman's Journal, Volume 2

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...
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

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,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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,...
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The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words

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...
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Beginning Life: Chapters for Young Men on Religion, Study, and Business

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...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

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,...
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Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for Use in Colleges and Academies ...

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,...
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Grammatical Synthesis: The Art of English Composition

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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