 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...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 make judgment wholly... | |
 | 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,...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 judgment wholly... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | William Henry - Chemistry - 1819 - 440 pages
...must be combined to prepare us for the latter*." " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." This recommendation to artists,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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,...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 judgment wholly... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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 jndgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps jndge of particulars,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...serve for dalight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and for ability...by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spund too much time in studies is sloth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...and perhaps judge of particulars, one 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 ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 for...best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly... | |
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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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps... 
