 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment only... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...delight', is' . . in retired privacy'; for ornament', in discourse'; and for ability', in the arrangement and disposition of business': for expert men can execute',...perhaps', judge of particulars' , one by one'; but general councils', and the plots and marshalling of affairs' , come best from the learned*.* To spend... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...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 »nd disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is aflectation ; to make judgment wholly... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...varieties, and even to make improvements on the species. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used by mere... | |
 | George Campbell - 1841 - 416 pages
...men," says Lord Bacon, "can execute and judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general councils, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned." Indeed, in almost every art, even as used by mere practitioners, there are certain rules, as hath been... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 588 pages
...mental, and physical ; and The formation of proper habits and associations. CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION. " The general counsels, and the plots and marshalling...of affairs, come best from those that are learned." — BACON. THE teacher is to establish a system or organization, the object of which is to prevent... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is iri discourse; and for ability is in the judgment and...best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their cljief use for delight is in privateness and raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd 1 I have oft...flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful arc learned. To spend too much time in Studien, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation... | |
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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... 
