 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...  Philosophical works - Page 301by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...upon the sententious wisdom of the greatest of modern philosophers. " Studies," says my Lord Bacon, "serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. — Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...first grant • if a man show himself neither dejected nor discontented. " Iniquum petas, ut cequum feras," is a good rule, where a man hath strength...business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps ijudge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...are not spoiled till those of nature age are already sunk into corruption. ON STUDIES.— LORD BACOU. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...almost entirely of aphorisms and detached sentences. The extracts which follow are from his Essays.] Studies. Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...; 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,... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...in one peaceful current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...book, out of which he is doomed to read tedious homilies to distasting schoolboys." — Charles Lamb. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and dispositions of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...general contrivers of suits ; for they are hut a kind of poison and infection to public proceeding. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament,...; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of paiticulars one by one : but the general counsels, and tihe plots and marshalling of affairs, come... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...holiness to which only a desperate heart could be insensible. 15 EXERCISE VII. Studies. — BACON. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one 6 by one ; but the general counsels, and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...advantageously dispkys his fullness and richness of thought and of style than this on the use of study. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....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... | |
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