 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...  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 485by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse 4 ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.5 For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ß ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse 4 ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.5 For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth 6 ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation 7 ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...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...particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plot* and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...says, "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 dispositon of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of, particulars one by one. But... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1898 - 788 pages
...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 (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
...which "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 ability, is in judgment and disposition of business." The Defense Contract Audit Agency is a dynamic organization... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...serue for Delight, for Ornament, and for Ability. Their Chiefe Vse for Delight, is in Priuatenesse and Retiring; For Ornament, is in Discourse; And for Ability, is in the ludgement and Disposition of Businesse. 30 For Expert Men can Execute, and perhaps ludge of particulars,... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...find 'For expert men can execute but learned men are fittest to judge and censure.' In 1625 we find 'For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. ' In other words, men only of practice can act upon what is counselled. But counsel which leads to... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
..."StU'iies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their cbiel use for delight is in privateuess and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse, and for...ability is In the judgment and disposition of business." ]O. Define pitch, force and rate. PENMANSHIP. 1. Give the height of the following letters : a, B. c,... | |
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