 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...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 361by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Church schools - 1844 - 456 pages
...Studio wire for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief nw for delight, is In privBteness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can exccute, and perhaps judge of particular!, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...entirely of aphorisms and detached sentences. The extracts which follow are from his Essays.] Studies. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...gain bv conquest. 6* / 66 COBB'S NEW SEQUEL, OR, FOURTH READING BOOK. READING LESSON XVI. On Study. 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...Morning, 10 to 1. GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION. Examiner, Rev. Dr. JERRARD. Translate into Greek Prose : Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...virtuous' exertion', to shed through our souls', the blessedness' of heaven'. Finlavson. V. ON STUDY. Studies' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studiet.] privatoness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, ia in the judgment and... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...least of all, such a change as they would bring us. Exercise 3 — Illustrating Rule 4, Page 20. _ 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in retired privacy; for ornament, in discourse ; and for ability, in the arrangement and disposition of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the one of the other 1 Stuilies s?rve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief иче readers will be amused by the following extracts from this performance, the first of which Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 54 55 L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and for ability....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... | |
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