 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...And now, old Dobson, turning pale, Yields to his fate. So ends my tale. MILS. T:i ll.tl.H. 105. On Study. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are hut a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studio.] would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and fountains, privatenesi and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in thejudgment and disposition... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...religious and moral duties. XV. — ON STUDY. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatenes« traction of that living intellect that bred them....they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, marshalling of affairs, come best from those Lhnt are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 740 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chiefe use, for delight, is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of businesse." And soon after : — " To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;: to use them too much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. L. OP STUDIES4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and; for...by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
 | 582 pages
...deviate from the original. I. ON STUDY. " Studies serve for delight, for oinament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. To spend too much time in studies is... | |
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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... 
