| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness1 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 judge of particulars,... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...ESSAYS," L.) 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 judge of particulars,... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...STUDIES AND BOOKS. 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 exeeute and perhaps judge of business... | |
| Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...ESSAYS," L.) 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 judge of particulars,... | |
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...it. ON STUDY. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. The 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 judge of particulars... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 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 for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for, expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...STUDIES. — BACON.' 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 judge of particulars,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...thereof. STUDIES. 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 judge of particulars,... | |
| Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...— BACON. 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. Expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...STUDIES serre for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in prirateness,1 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 judge of particulars,... | |
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