The Globe-republican., 1902-01-02

/. for delight, for ornament, and for
! ability. Their chief use for delight,
Is in privateness and retiring; for or
lament is in discourse; and for abil-
15y. is in the judgment and disposition
OF business; for expert men can exc
cute, and perhaps Judge of particu-
lars, one by one; but the general
eounsels, and the plots and marshal
ing of affairs come best from those
that are learned.
$40 spend too much time IN stories
as sloth; to use them too much for
ornament is affectation; to make
judgmen wholly by their rules, is
~ the humor of a scholar: they perfect
u ature, and are perfected by expert
e zee: for natural abilities are like
{natura1 plants, that need pruning
BY study; and studies themselves do
give forth directions too much at
large, except they be bounded in by
experience. Crafty men contemn
studios, simple men admire them, and
wise men use them; for they teach
not their own use; but that is a wis
dom; without them and above them.
won by observation.
ssRead not to contradict and CON
fr1te, nor to believe and take for
GRANTED, nor to find talk and dis
coAgrse. but to weigh and consider.
Se8ne 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,
HaAhy things-vapid, without taste
or spirit
d.Reading maketh a full man; con-
ference a ready man; and writing an
exaet man; and therefore, if a man
write little, he had need have great
nn9mory; if he confer little, he had
neeSl have present wit; and if he
reald little, he need have much cum
ming, to seem to know that he doth
nos1 Histories make men wise; poets,
witty; the mathematics, subtitle; nat
ura1 philosophy, deep; moral, grave;
logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
ssStudies become habits; nay, there
is no stand or impediment in the wit,
but May be wrought out by fit studies;
s7flke as diseases of the body may have
ppropriate exercises. IF man s
5sssvit be wandering, let him study the
1aathematics; for in demonstrations,
bis wit be called away never SO little,
he must begin again; if his wit
E not apt to distinguish or find diff
sfarances let him study the schoolmen.
for they are splitters of straws- He
could distinguish and divide hair
twixt south and southwest side.
II he be not apt to beat over matters
and to call up one thing to prove
sisds illustrate another, let him study
the lawyers cases, so every defect of
the mInd may have a special receipt =
II g. Baird is pleased with NJ ARGUS
Nright's reference history of the
Tinted States. Has never found any
Thing in the history line with such
ready and concise reference. 1t is
philosophical 1t gives causes and
effects. 1T covers the civil war and
contains The records of the confeder-
ate cause. Tt is certainly desirable
and should be in the hands of young
people. In discussing the merits of
fllese books, and growing reminiscent,
Mr. Baird said the older we grow the
Hnore Interesting we become in
United States history. So many
hanges in history have been made
Z sing our Iives-from inception to
A3letion-that we follow the course
remarkable earnestness. The