 Let it not suffice us to be Book-learned, to read what others have written, and to take upon Trust more Falsehood than Truth ; but let us ourselves examine things as we have opportunity, and converse with Nature as well as Books.  The Study of Man - Page iby Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ray - 1714 - 430 pages
...Minds, I do not fay, to all Eternity, but to many Ages, mould we do nothing elfe, , Let it not fuffice us to be Book-learned, to read what others have written, and to take upon Truft more Falmood than Truth : But let us our felves examine things as we have opportunity, and converfe... | |
 | Gerard Edwards Smith - 1829 - 114 pages
...OBSERVATIONS. BY GERARD EDWARDS SMITH, Of St. John's College, Oxford. " Let us ourselves examine things, and converse with Nature as well as books. Let us endeavour to promote and diffuse this knowledge." RAT. " When Nature has perfected her seeds, her next care is to disperse {hem.... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1834 - 408 pages
...what was his conception of the true character of a naturalist : " Let it not suffice us," says he, " to be book-learned, to read what others have written,...and to take upon trust more falsehood than truth. Bat let us ourselves examine things as we have opportunity, and converse with nature as well as books.... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...do not want tor flatterers to approve and encourage them. ST. AUOUSTINE — ¡iiiok of the fathers. LET it not suffice us to be book-learned, to read what others have written, but let us ourselves examine things as we have opportunity, and converse with nature as well as books.... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...says he, " to read what others have learned, and to take upon trust more falsehood than truth, liut let us ourselves examine things as we have opportunity,...discoveries ; not so much distrusting our own parts, or despising our own abilities, as to think that oar industry can add nothing to the invention of our... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1871 - 760 pages
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 | Stray thoughts, E L - 1885 - 118 pages
...anything.- — Thomas Carlyle. 28. LET it not suffice to be book-learned, to read what others have written ; but let us ourselves examine things as we have opportunity, and converse with nature as well as with books. — Kay. 29. MY mind to me a kingdom is, Such perfect joy therein I find, As far exceeds... | |
 | Catherine Isabel Dodd - 1906 - 208 pages
...beset with the danger of interfering with ancestral and congenital tendencies." — Stanley Hall. " Let it not suffice us to be book-learned, to read...opportunity, and converse with nature as well as books." — John Ray. " According to the divine order, man comes helpless into the world, but capable of cultivation... | |
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