 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...  Works - Page 301by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 506 pages
...Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. Reading maketh a full man,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in Studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenessand retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability,...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time"in Studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studifj, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to... | |
 | 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,...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 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...business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge 6f particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling- of affairs, come... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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,...perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the genera^ counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 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...of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars, one -by one r but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in stndies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 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...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... | |
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