 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
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...vegetaI bles, at the meals. ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...business. For expert men can execute, and ; perhaps judge of particulars ; one by one ; but the general i counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings, 54 ESSAYS CIVIL AND MORAL. 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...comfort. [King's College, 1835.] 65. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other 1 [ Studie».] 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a, kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. L. OF STUDIES. , and one smooth entire straw at the top. They take...beard half the breadth of a finger in length. Then of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...30 17 Kill Bogphonu, Cape Anatoli I/ • 1 * 41 11 41 13 29 38 29 10 THE f hrafnr. VOLUME THE FIFTH STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatencss and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...use for delight, is in prirateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, a in the judgment and disposition of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; bat the general counsels, and the plots and marshaffing of affairs, come... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...And now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MRS. THEAI.B. 105. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...sufficient to excuse them, if they go out of their way in a well-beaten track. JOHN LOCKE. 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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