 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 sider
...the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience, for natural abilities are... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 sider
...'.he plotb and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by tlieir rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, aiui are perfected by experience —... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 sider
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected...experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study ; and studii'S themselves do give forth directions too nun. h at large,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 sider
...the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too mnch time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affeetation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar : they perfeet nature... | |
 | 1898 - 788 sider
...best from those that are learned. To spend toomuch timein studies, is sloth; to use them too in ne h for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is thé humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfccted by expérience. For natural abilities... | |
 | Joan Simon - 1966 - 472 sider
...civilised style by Francis Bacon. The initial essay 'On Studies' advised that 'to spend too much time on studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament,...affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience'. As for various studies,... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 sider
...themselves, and that knowledge unapplied in action was a pale academic vanity. "To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament...judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not... | |
 | Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald, Wormald Brian Harvey Goodwin - 1993 - 436 sider
...expert men can execute, but learned men are fittest to judge or censure. To spend too much time in them, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience... they teach not their own... | |
 | Ula C. Manzo, Anthony V. Manzo - 1993 - 662 sider
...literacy education, aptly reflected by the popular quote from Francis Bacon: To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by rules is the humor of a scholar. . . . Read not to contradict... | |
 | Markku Peltonen, Peltonen Markku - 1996 - 406 sider
...culture, is made explicit in the passage cited above from the essay "Of Studies." To recall, studies "perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study" (VI, 497). In a similar way, the studies outlined in the Novum organum... | |
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... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 
