 | Edward Thomas - 2005 - Liczba stron: 304
...sloth": Francis Bacon, "Of Studies". (The full sentence is "To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.") This motto was supplied by Thomas' friend Hodges. "Desine fata deum flecti sperare... | |
 | 2006 - Liczba stron: 528
...much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar....abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in... | |
 | Rong Fan - 2006 - Liczba stron: 169
...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 their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - Liczba stron: 512
...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 their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2007 - Liczba stron: 157
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning,1 by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they... | |
 | Dianne L. Durante - 2007 - Liczba stron: 312
...Subway: 1 to n6th Street-Columbia University. Alma Mater, French Learning and Experience [Studies] perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for...natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning [pruning], by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except... | |
 | Thomas Betteridge - 2007 - Liczba stron: 216
...which then further informs their studies. This links to Bacon's observation in the Essays that studies 'perfect nature, and are perfected by experience,...natural abilities are like natural plants that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be... | |
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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. 
