| May Laffan - Irish fiction - 1881 - 510 pages
...Rationalism. HOGAN, M..P..... CHAPTER I. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. " — Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral. THE schoolroom of St. Swithin's Convent presented a scene of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in dtscourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring...judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots... | |
| James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...which bears the weight of the meaning. "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring...judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general councils, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend... | |
| Canadian Bar Association - Law - 1928 - 468 pages
...Digest or Pandects. "Studies," says Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...ability is in the judgment and disposition of business." Approaching the matter with those words in mind, one observes at once that much of the substance of... | |
| Montgomery Belgion - Books and reading - 1950 - 312 pages
...expression elegant but stilted. Here is the first half of one of the most widely known of the Essays: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...sense of proportion : "Studies," he says, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring;...discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But... | |
| Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...Dculschland eine XXIII Version anglaise. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in (he judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can exécute and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
| United States. Defense Contract Audit Agency - 1976 - 152 pages
...hope the readers of this history will find it like the studies Sir Francis Bacon wrote about which "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in judgment and disposition of business." The Defense Contract Audit Agency is a dynamic organization... | |
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