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A Treatise on English Punctuation: Designed for Letter-writers, Authors ... - Page 98
by John Wilson - 1856
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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 use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....
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The Elements of Punctuation: With Rules on the Use of Capital Letters ...

John Wilson - English language - 1856 - 188 pages
...expressions,* even if they are not in the same construction, are subject to the operation of the rule ; as, " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." c. When two brief phrases are formed alike, and united by either of the conjunctions a«rf, or, nor,...
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The Elements of Punctuation: With Rules on the Use of Capital Letters, Being ...

John Wilson - English language - 1857 - 192 pages
...haunts the depths of the earth and sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. REMARKS. a. The first and second of these sentences...use of phrases in the same construction : the third exemplifies that of clauses. Both kinds of expressions are said to be in the same construction, because,...
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Analytical and Practical Grammar

Peter Bullions - 1857 - 264 pages
...992. RULK 3. — In compound sentences, the clauses or memhers are usually separated by commas ; as, " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." But when the clauses are short, or closely connected, the comma is not used , as, " Revelation tells...
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The Asylum Journal of Mental Science

Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 pages
...Physic, selves do give forth directions too much at 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 use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them won by observation....
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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 use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....
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The Elements of Punctuation: With Rules on the Use of Capital Letters, Being ...

John Wilson - English language - 1857 - 196 pages
...haunts the depths of the earth and sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. REMARKS. a. The first and second of these sentences exemplify the use of S'irases in the same construction : the third exemplifies that of clauses, oth kinds of expressions...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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 use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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 use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...studies themselves do give forth directions too much at 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 use, but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation....
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