 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...for ornament, is in discourse ; 2 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.3 For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,...learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; 4 to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; 5 to make judgment wholly by their rules, is... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...such admirable language. OF STUDIE& From his Essays. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, aiid for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...men can execute, and perhaps judge of part irulars, 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1866 - 930 pages
...general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 4. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use...judgment only by their rules is the humour of a scholar. 5. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants,... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1866 - 342 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:... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 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 per'fect nature, and are perfected by experience... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...stop, falleth out of his own favor, and is not the thing he was. From " Essays." STUDIES. LORD BicoN. 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, aud are perfected by experience... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 374 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 - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. ^ Their chief use for delight is in privateness,1 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... | |
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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... 
