 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
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...both mother and daughter to be maintained at the public expense. 'CBBS <L CHAPTER LXIX. ON STUDY 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes? and retirement; for ornament ,is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement, and... | |
 | 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....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.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. ©f &TUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for dalight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for...business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs come... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...cultivation. PRATT. CHAP. IX. 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...ntimine omnia regi gubcrnarique pertpeximus, mines gentes nationesque stiperavimus. L. OP 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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but £ 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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 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; forornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for... | |
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