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The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts - Page 23
edited by - 1916 - 471 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. STUDIES. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability....particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and '.he plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Therefore mark my counsel .... or both yourself and mo Cry, lost.' — Shake«pere. ESSAY L. OF STUDIES. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privatcness1 and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and...
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The Popular Educator, Volume 5

1856 - 428 pages
...in discourse ; and for ability, ia in the judgment and disposition of business : for expert meu ran execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots mid marshalling of affairs, vorne best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies,...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed for a Text-book and for ...

Hubbard Winslow - 1856 - 440 pages
...the gulf between the learned and the uneducated. " Expert men," says Lord Bacon, " can execute and judge of particulars one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned." RELATION OF ABSTRACTION TO RELIGION....
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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Retiring ; for Ornament is in Difcourfe ; and for Ability is in the Judgement and Difpofition of Bufinefs. For expert Men can execute, and perhaps judge of Particulars, one by one ; but the general Counfels, and the Plots and marfhalling of Affairs come beft from thofe that are learned. To fpend...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
....... or both yourself and me Cry, lost' — Shakespere. /" , . ,A 2_ . .<.,. v ESSAY L. OF STUDIES. 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...
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Memoir of Edmund Dwight

Francis Bowen - 1857 - 444 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that " expert men can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 4

1857 - 956 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that "expert шеи can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 4

Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 pages
...second class of persons characterized by Lord Bacon, when he says that " expert men can execute and judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and the marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned." Mr. Dwight's business led him frequently...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 4

1857 - 882 pages
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