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The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and ... - Page 229
by Henry Noble Day - 1872 - 341 pages
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own...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...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...except they be bounded in by experience; Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them , aud wise men use them : for they teach not their own use...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...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...large, except fhey be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use, but- fbat is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute,...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own...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,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...limited &y experience. Crafty men condemn studies, nmple men admire them, and wi>e men u?e 'them j for they. teach not . their own use ; but that is a wisdom won by observation. 3. Read riot to contradict and refute, nor to b:lieve and take for granted, nor...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
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Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ...

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
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