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- Francis Bacon's essay: OF STUDIES (English original) - worth reading 19991229235457
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- 大师面前谁敢称高手？ - Last Hermit 19991230061630
- 实在感谢。隐士即使不是高手，起码也是大师的高徒。 - 散文 19991230161218
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- 实在感谢。隐士即使不是高手，起码也是大师的高徒。 - 散文 19991230161218
Francis Bacon's essay: OF STUDIES (English original)
作者：worth reading - 1999/12/29 23:54:57 ***OF STUDIES
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in
privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment,
and disposition of business. 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. 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 like
natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and 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. 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. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made
of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner
sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. 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 subtile; natural philosophy
deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay,
there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as
diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and
reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head;
and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in
demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be
not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini
sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and
illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a
special receipt.
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大师面前谁敢称高手？
作者：Last Hermit - 1999/12/30 06:16:30 ***读书足以怡情，足以傅采，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅采也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当……
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实在感谢。隐士即使不是高手，起码也是大师的高徒。
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