 | American literature - 1855 - 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...counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come but from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to to use them too much... | |
 | Church schools - 1844 - 456 pages
...wire for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief nw for delight, is In privBteness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for...judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can exccute, and perhaps judge of particular!, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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...; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 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 in the judgment and disposition of business. 2. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels,... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 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 studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...for delight', for ornament', and for ability'. Their chief use for delight', is in privateness' and retiring' ; for ornament', is in discourse'; and for...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...use for delight is in privatoness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, ia arc learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, Í3 in the judgment nnd [Sorcery and Witchcraft.] affair*, come best from those that nre learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...for delight, is in retired privacy; for ornament, in discourse ; and for ability, in the arrangement and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute,...and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but general councils, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from the learned. '; 2. To spend... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is for 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 affectation ; 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... 
