 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatencss and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...think it sufficient to excuse them, if they go out of their way in a well-beaten track. JOHN LOCKE. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience:... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...objects that surround it.— W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...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;... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...objects that surround it. W. Danby. 105. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;...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;... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 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....much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...public proceedings. 1 To have little effect. 2 To this extent. a Of the information. L.-OF STUDIES.1 STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatcness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and...use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those...much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots mid marshalling of affairs, vorne best from those that are learned. To spend too much...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:... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 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 scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
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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... 
