 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
 | Engineering - 1873 - 524 pages
...possible, and never delay committing to paper what they see worth depicting by pencil. Bacon says, " Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ability is in the judgment and disposition of business." Again he says : "Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." J hope... | |
 | Books - 1880 - 492 pages
...88o.] THE LITERARY WORLD. The Literary World. BOSTON, JUNE 19, 1880. NB Tit's is a GARFIELD number. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of busj ness ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...there is no such remedy against flat.terv of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Studiet. Studios serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the the judgment and disposition of business : for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
 | Books - 1880 - 492 pages
...in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute,...particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels and the marshalling of Affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is... | |
 | 1881 - 406 pages
...stand among the finest prose literature in the English, language. Following is a selection from one on Studies: "Studies serve for delight, for ornament,...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... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...a man may not look to sow and reap at once ; but must prepare business, and soripen it by degrees. atter ; tut the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - Teaching - 1881 - 470 pages
...following well-known passage from Bacon : Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring...parti'culars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plois and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies... | |
 | May Laffan - Irish fiction - 1881 - 510 pages
...passion that had formerly been supreme." — LECKY, History of Rationalism. HOGAN, M..P..... CHAPTER I. " Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability....ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. " — Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral. THE schoolroom of St. Swithin's Convent presented a scene of... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1881 - 250 pages
...such a close compression of thought that it cannot bo explained without great multiplication of words. retiring; for ornament is in discourse, and for ability...judge of particulars, one by one, but the general roundels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...request to a greate man as his ire, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of his reputation. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in dtscourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men s can execute,... | |
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