 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
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. 3. OP STUDIES.1 (" ESSAYS," L.) 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.) - 1859 - 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....chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; ior ornament is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. 3. OF STUDIES.1 (" ESSAYS," L.) 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...the destrnctive influence upon animal life heretofore attributed to the Upas-tree. STUDIES AND BOOKS. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....judgment and disposition of business, for expert men can exeeute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenoss and retiringj for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." OF STUDIES. — (BACON.) STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, in discourse : and for ability, in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 536 pages
...delight, ia in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of 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... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...have not ; so here I rest it. 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 counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring j for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...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, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...'Therefore mark my counsel . ... or both yourself and me Cry, lost.' — Shakespsrc. OF STUDIES. OTUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
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