 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 942 pages
...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 6. Crafty men contemn studies Dimple 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. 1. Read not to contradict and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...of his old age. We will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketli a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...themselves do give forth direetions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty wise men 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... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pages
...thus. " Crafty men eontemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teaeh not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation . Read not to eontradiet, nor to belie ve, but to weigh and eonsider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1863 - 1030 pages
...nerve to relax, no breast to feel faintness. — Danitl Webster. LORD BACON ON HEADING AND STUDY. — Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them...them ; for they teach not their own use : that is n wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...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,...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... | |
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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, and above them, won by observation. 
