| English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...multitude. » SPECTATOR. ON STUDY. OTUDIES serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...execute , and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; bui the general counsels , and the plots , and marshalling of affairs , come best from those that... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...and retiring ; for ornament , is in discourse ; and for ability , is in the judgment and ilisposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps...of affairs , come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...MELMOTH. .S 1 I:,. * CHAP. IX. ON S FUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, asd for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels,,and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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...of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness. and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend toe much time in studies is sloth; to use them- too much for ornament is affectation; to make... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. o* %ttltliC0, STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament., is- affectation ;... | |
| Asia - 1817 - 678 pages
...render future editions lees open to VouIÏI. 3N 450 critical remarks. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one...of affairs, come best from those that are learned." We are informed by the author of i the work before us. " that he has avoided treating of those subjects... | |
| 1818 - 506 pages
...blended with what has gone before : " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Reading maketh a full man,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...general contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. ©f STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in Studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
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