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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 301
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...and retiring ; for ornament , is in discourse ; and for ability , is in the judgment and ilisposition of business. For expert men can execute , and perhaps...much for ornament is affectation ; to . make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They parfect nature , and are perfected by experience...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...of particulars, one by one ; but the generall counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend too...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler. They perfect nature, and are perfected...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...of particulars, one by one ; bat the generall counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affaires, come best from those that are learned. To spend too...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholler. They perfect nature, and are perfected...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholJar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability, is...much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. o* %ttltliC0, STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience:...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...for ornament., is- affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...general contrivers of Suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. İf STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect Nature, and are perfected by experience...
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...contrivers of suits ; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. LI. OP STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...is in privateness and retirement; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,...much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.— They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
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