 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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...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
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for...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... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 pages
...retiring ; for ornament is in difcourfe, and for ability is in the judgment and difpofition of bufinefs. For expert men can execute and, perhaps, judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counfels and the plots and marmalling of affairs come beft from thofe that are learned. Read not to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...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 make judgment wholly... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for...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 make judgment wholly... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...; for Ornament, is in Difcourfe ; and for Ability, is in the Judgement and Difpofition of Bufinefs. For expert Men can execute, and perhaps judge of Particulars, one by one ; but the general Counfels, and the Plots, and marfl1alling of Affairs, come beft from thofe that are learned. To fpend... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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...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 make judgment wholly... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...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 make judgment wholly... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend loo much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment... | |
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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... 
