 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...  Philosophical works - Page 301by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...expression, when he replied, " I am, gentlemen, no longer your affectionate friend.' STFDIES AND BOOKS. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business, for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privatcness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for...by 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...Note — Rhet. div. of words 27 Rule 12 THE ELOCUTIONIST. PROMISCUOUS SELECTIONS IN PROSE. On Study. STUDIES' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...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,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...statues, and such things, for state and magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a garden. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and 1 Go. To tend to. * To deprive by stealth ; to rob. marshalling of affairs, come best from those that... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...Ord betegnes mi en udferligere Afhandling, isaer om en historiak Materie. i. OF STUDIES. (Essay L.) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...that surround it. — W. Dariby. 115. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...one by one ; but the general counsels and the plots of marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in study is... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...expression, when he replied, "I am, gentlemen, no. longer your affectionate friend/ STUDIES AND BOOKS. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....business, for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of business one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1875 - 372 pages
...following extract from Lord Bacon, however excellent in other respects, is deficient in melody : — " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse j and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...request to a greate man as his tre, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
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