 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pagina’s
...counsels, and the plots and mar shalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To speno too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too...scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pagina’s
...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...scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pagina’s
...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...scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study ; and studies... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pagina’s
...affairs, come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies', is sloth' ; to use too much for ornament', is affectation' ; to make...scholar* : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pagina’s
...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...scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning,1 by study; and studies... | |
 | Donald Nivison Ferguson - 1969 - 317 pagina’s
...I quote these pregnant sentences, italicizing a few phrases to make their point prick more sharply: "To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use...scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pagina’s
...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...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience." They perfect nature, for... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pagina’s
...either end or wisdom in themselves, and that knowledge unapplied in action was a pale academic vanity. "To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use...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... | |
 | Richard Lanham - 2003 - 276 pagina’s
...chief use] for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business . . . Then another tricolon: To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use...judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. basic pattern has been established. We might call it the 'Beatitudes' pattern ('Blessed are the ...... | |
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... of business; 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. 
