| Sir Arthur Bouverie, Jane Vaughan Pinkney - 1850 - 384 pages
...delight, for ornament and for ability. * ****** To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. — BACON. SEVERAL days passed, a week, a month, and still there was no better understanding between... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...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...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
| 582 pages
...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...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth... | |
| English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...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...judge of particulars ; one by one ; but the general i counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. I To... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...by their rules, is the - humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...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...by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...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...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshallings of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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...by their rules, is the humour of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
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