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... look well upon the former life of those few , whether your ample be old or young , who without learning have gathered by long experience a little wisdom and some happiness ; and when you consider what mis- chief they have committed ...
... look well upon the former life of those few , whether your ample be old or young , who without learning have gathered by long experience a little wisdom and some happiness ; and when you consider what mis- chief they have committed ...
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... look up ardently and anxiously to academical distinctions ; not by the want of at- tachment to the place , for I regarded it then , as I continue to regard it now , with the fondest and most unfeigned affection ; but by another want ...
... look up ardently and anxiously to academical distinctions ; not by the want of at- tachment to the place , for I regarded it then , as I continue to regard it now , with the fondest and most unfeigned affection ; but by another want ...
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... look up with humble awe , but with inspiring hope to the Great Being on whom that destination de- pends ; to make it feel that the source of happi- ness is in itself and not in the objects that sur- round it.-W. Danby . 115 . Studies ...
... look up with humble awe , but with inspiring hope to the Great Being on whom that destination de- pends ; to make it feel that the source of happi- ness is in itself and not in the objects that sur- round it.-W. Danby . 115 . Studies ...
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... look to those things which are obvious and superficial . It is natural also to avoid labour , and to seek for compendious methods . We may , with very little application , acquire the opinions of those who have gone before us ; and if ...
... look to those things which are obvious and superficial . It is natural also to avoid labour , and to seek for compendious methods . We may , with very little application , acquire the opinions of those who have gone before us ; and if ...
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... looks too high to find that which very often lies beneath her . Therefore con- descend to men of low estate , and be for wisdom that which Alcibiades was for power . He that rings only one bell will hear only one sound ; and he that ...
... looks too high to find that which very often lies beneath her . Therefore con- descend to men of low estate , and be for wisdom that which Alcibiades was for power . He that rings only one bell will hear only one sound ; and he that ...
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Página 39 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 135 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 153 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 31 - 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.
Página 12 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 12 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 132 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Página 31 - ... 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.
Página 135 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 6 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.