TextBOfStudies
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Studiesservefht,foror,andforability。Theirchiefusefht,isinprivatenessairing;foror,isindisdforability,isianddispositionofbusiness。
&mee,andperhapsjudgeofpartiebyohegeneralsels,asandmarshallingofaffairs,ebestformthosethatarelearned。
Tospendtoomustudiesissloth;tousethemtoomuent,isaffeakejudgmentwhollybytheirrules,isthehumorofascholar。
&nature,aedbyexperieuralabilitiesarelikenaturalplants,thatneedpruningbystudy;ahemselvesdogiveforthdireuchatlarge,excepttheybeboundedinbyexperience。
nstudies,simplemehem,ahem;fortheyteaottheirowhatisawisdomwithoutthem,ahem,woion。
&otradifute;nortobelieveandtakefraofindtalkanddiscourse;buttoweighandsider。
Somebooksaretobetasted,otherstobeswallowed,aobeddigested;thatis,somebooksaretobereadonlyinparts;otherstoberead,butnotcuriously;aobereadwholly,andwithdiligeention。
Somebooksalsomaybereadbydeputy,asmadeofthembyothers;butthatwouldbeonlyias,aofbooks;elsedistilledbooksare,likeoers,flashythings。
Readihafullman;ceareadyman;andwritiman。Andtherefore,ifamale,hehadmemory;ifheferlittle,hehadneedhaveapresentwit;atle,hehadneedhavemug,toseemtoknowthathedothnot。
Historiesmakemes,witty;themathematics,subtile;naturalphilosophy,deep;midrhetoric,abletod。Abeuntstudiaiudiesgotomakeupaman’scharacter。)
aimaybewroughtoutbyfitstudies:likeasdiseasesofthebodymayhaveappropriateexercises。Bowlingisgoodforthestoneandreins;shsalewalkiforthehead;andthelike。
Soifaman’switbewahimstudythemathemationstrations,ifhiswitbecalledawayle,hemustbeginagain。Ifhiswitbenotapttodistinguishorfihimstudythesen;fortheyareisectores(Hair-splitters)。Ifhebenotapttobeatovermatters,andtoethingtoproveandillustrateaudythelawyers’cases。Soeverydefeindmayhaveaspecialreceipt。
1。Ahefollowiions。
1)Whatismaihepassage?
2)Whatarethefunsofstudies?Explaiion?
3)Whatarediffereudestowardsstudies?
4)Howwereadbookseffitly?
5)What’sthediffereweenreadingandwriting?
6)Aresodliberalartsimportantforstudy?Why?
2。Trahefollowingfamousliodpareyourversionwiththatofyourclassmates。
1)Studiesservefht,foror,andforability。
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2)nstudies,simplemehem,ahem。
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3)Somebooksaretobetasted,otherstobeswallowed,aobeddigested。
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4)Readihafullman;ceareadyman;andwritiman。
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