 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...  Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 266by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...sentences; and analyse the following essay, by Lord Bacon, into sentences, and their various parts: — Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...entirely of aphorisms and detached sentences. The extracts which follow are from his Essays.] Studies. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of par(36) ticulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1845 - 252 pages
...gain bv conquest. 6* / 66 COBB'S NEW SEQUEL, OR, FOURTH READING BOOK. READING LESSON XVI. On Study. 1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privacy and retirement ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...Morning, 10 to 1. GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION. Examiner, Rev. Dr. JERRARD. Translate into Greek Prose : Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...current until they finally and conjointly merge in the ocean of Eternity. THE USES OF STUDIES. — "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for...ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in judgment and duposition for business." — Thoughts by Bacon. THE Journal of f^ealtf) antj AUGUST,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...virtuous' exertion', to shed through our souls', the blessedness' of heaven'. Finlavson. V. ON STUDY. Studies' serve' for delight', for ornament', and for...disposition' of business'. For expert' men can execute', and perhaps judge' of particulars, one' by one' ; but the general' counsels', and the plots', and marshalling'... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...least of all, such a change as they would bring us. Exercise 3 — Illustrating Rule 4, Page 20. _ 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in retired privacy; for ornament, in discourse ; and for ability, in the arrangement and disposition of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...distant participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other ! [Studiet.] privatoness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, ia in the judgment and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...the one of the other 1 Stuilies s?rve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief иче readers will be amused by the following extracts from this performance, the first of which Í3 in the judgment nnd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...suits; for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. 54 55 L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament and for ability....disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one : but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling... | |
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