 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
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 942 pages
.... i ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, la in the judgment and disposition of business, il For expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars,...one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and mai'shallingof attaint, come bett from those that arc learned. 4. To upend too much time in studies... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 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 studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to... | |
 | Popular educator - 1860 - 424 pages
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatenoss and retiringj for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is...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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, in discourse : and for ability, in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1970 - 712 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Michael Irmscher - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 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 ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business."4 The introduction of the Bacon essay enlarges the parameters of translation workshop activities:... | |
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