...and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions...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,...

...and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions...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,...

...plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. plants, that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...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,...

...health, in which knowledge, as Bacon hath it, there is a wisdom btyond the rules of Physic, selves do give forth directions too much at large, except...wisdom without them and above them won by observation. (Essay L. of Studies.) This contempt, whether of crafty men or narrow-minded men, often finds its expression...

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...perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty, and studies themselves do give forth directions too...at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 112 PARAPHRASING. " Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to...

...give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : — " Crafty men condemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use, that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but...

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...nature, and are perfected by experience, for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...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...