 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...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...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 sloth... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...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...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...privateness and retiring; forornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps...wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural abilities are like natural plants, that... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...corporeal talent, it is a species of dexterity arising from natural agility. " Expert men can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general...of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Bacon. Ex-piate, expio, (pins, pious,) I make satisfaction for sin by some pious act. Both atone and... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...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...plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those tlrat are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...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...to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; t» make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 430 pages
...impossible for us to attain this enviable situation without study: but it should be remembered, that " to spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rule, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience : for natural... | |
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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. 
